Josip

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Josip is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 55(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 809
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 3.3K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

77,324 people, 2021

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 55 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JosipLatin(measured from records)
ЈосипCyrillic(measured from records)
ΓιόσιπGreek(measured from records)

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 male given name, equivalent to English Joseph

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Josip 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.

Where Josip is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#477,3241 in 5577KJosip173
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#39≈4,700 est.≈1 in 80968Josip43
RS Serbia#218≈2,100 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Josip45
SI Slovenia#3011,4491 in 1.5K1.4KJosip20
AT Austria—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 6.2K137—1

77,324 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Josip is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Йосіп, Josìp

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Josip is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Josip är en sydslavisk form av → Josef. En känd namnbärare är det forna Jugoslaviens diktator, Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom., slowenische, serbische, kroatische [’josip] Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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)

18001850190019502000Josip Jelačić, b. 1801Josip Broz Tito, b. 1892Josip Skoblar, b. 1941Josip Šimunić, b. 1978Josip Iličić, b. 1988Josip Pivarić, b. 1989Josip Drmić, b. 1992Josip Juranović, b. 1995Josip Šutalo, b. 2000Josip Stanišić, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Josip
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202177K#5
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202162K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20082.3K#101
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20092.3K#101
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20102.2K#102
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20112.2K#106
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20122.1K#106
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20132.1K#110
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20142K#111
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20152K#114
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.9K#115
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.9K#119

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

In which country does Josip have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Josip, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josip.
Where is Josip most common?
Josip is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 55 people carrying it.
What does the name Josip mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Josip a male or female name?
Josip 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.
How common is the name Josip?
In Croatia, the national register counted 77,324 people named Josip in 2021, about 1 in 55 residents.
How common is Josip compared with other names?
In Croatia, Josip is the 4th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Josip?
In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Joe are forms of the same name in other languages; Jozo, Joso and Joško are recorded short or pet forms.

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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, “Josip” — the 4th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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