Jóska
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name József, equivalent to English Joe
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jóska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 52K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 76K
- HRCroatia1 in 201K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
227 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joska in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the male given name József, equivalent to English Joe
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jóska counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 227 | 1 in 76K | 186 | Joska | 28 |
| FI Finland | 107 | 1 in 52K | 135 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 21 | 1 in 201K | 21 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
227 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jóska mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name József, equivalent to English Joe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jóska?
- In the etymology graph, Pino, Pepito and Joos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jóska?
- A machine transcription gives /juska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Jóska have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 227 people named Jóska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joska.
- Where is Jóska most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jóska is densest in Finland — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jóska?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 227 people named Jóska, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jóska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B3skaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jóska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.