Jāzeps
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Joseph (Biblical figure)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jāzeps is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- DEGermany≈1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
980 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jazeps in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany.
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)
Joseph (Biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jāzeps 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #592 | 980 | 1 in 1.9K | 980 | Jāzeps | 18 |
| US United States | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Jazeps | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Jazeps | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Jazeps | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
980 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jāzeps is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Bībeles Vecās Derības persona, Jēkaba un Rāheles mīļākais dēls, kuru brāļi pārdevuši verdzībā, taču viņš kļuvis par Ēģiptes pārvaldnieku un glābis savus tuviniekus no bada nāves
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kristietības reliģiski mitoloģiskajos priekšstatos Marijas juridiskais vīrs un Jēzus Kristus audzinātājs, amatnieks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Wihtolb. 1863LVnot in their usual nameLatvian composer (1863-1948)
- Jāzeps Rancānsb. 1886LVLatvian clergyman and politician (1886-1969)
- Jāzeps Grosvaldsb. 1891LVLatvian painter (1891-1920)
- Jāzeps Roskošsb. 1891LVLatvian politician (1891-1960)
- Jāzeps Eidussb. 1916LVLatvian physicist, teacher and translator
- Jazeps Paplavskisb. 1938LVEstonian-Latvian building scientist (born 1938)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 980 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 963 | #429 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Jāzeps mean, and where does it come from?
- Joseph (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jāzeps?
- In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Joe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jāzeps a male or female name?
- Jāzeps is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jāzeps have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 980 people named Jāzeps, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jāzeps.
- Where is Jāzeps most common?
- Jāzeps is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jāzeps?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 980 people named Jāzeps, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Jāzeps compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Jāzeps is the 592nd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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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%C4%81zepsThe 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, “Jāzeps” — the 592nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.