Given name & surname

Jozi

Jozi is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Jozi isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Jozi through the years

Babies since 1880
221
0 boys · 221 girls
Most popular year
2011
17 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+59%
Rising fast
02.557.51020002025Highest share 20220.0
Jozi in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1994–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 15 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Jozi’s family of names

Jozi has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joseph.

Walk Jozi’s family in the name graph

JoziJožiJoseph

Inner ring: spellings · 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.

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.

Similar names

If you love Jozi, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Joliet

“a pretty young woman”

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>99% girls

Modern

Joliene

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Joliee

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Jakzenny

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Jerely

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Joanny

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Zoli

“sultan”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Jenniyah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Jozi’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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