Given name

Joorsi

Joorsi is a masculine given name from Danish. It is used in Greenlandic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Joorsi comes from Danish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Danish Josef.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Joorsi’s family of names

In Greenlandic usage, Joorsi has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joseph. In Greenlandic usage, Joorsi was borrowed from the Danish form Josef. In Greenlandic usage, Joorsi has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Józef.

Walk Joorsi’s family in the name graph

JoorsiJôrseJosephJosefJózef

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Joorsi has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Danish roots to each of them.

GreenlandicDanish

Danishwhere Joorsi comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Norwegian

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Swedish

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“hart, stag”

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