Meaning & origin
What it means
Jožo is a diminutive of Jozef. Jozef goes back to Biblical Hebrew הוֹסִיף (hosíf), meaning “to add.”
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Where it comes from
Jožo is a diminutive of Jozef. Jozef comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Slovak usage, Jožo is a diminutive of Jozef.
Jožo’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Jožo is a diminutive of Jozef. In Slovak usage, Jožo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joe.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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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