Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jó comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Iobus, from Ancient Greek Ιώβ, from Hebrew.
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Jó’s family of names
Jó has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ijob.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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