Given name & surname
Joscha
“Yahweh is a gift”
Joscha is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning “Yahweh is a gift.” It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew יֹושָׁ֖ה (yōšāh, “Yahweh is a gift”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Joscha’s family of names
In German usage, Joscha was borrowed from the Hungarian form Józsa.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Joscha
- Joscha BurkhalterSwiss biathleteborn 1996
- Joscha KieferGerman actorborn 1982
- Joscha SauerGerman comics artistborn 1978
- Joscha WoszGerman association football playerborn 2002
- Joscha Bachcognitive scientistborn 1973
- Joscha RemusGerman writer, journalist and photographerborn 1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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