Josipa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jo˨˦s̪ipa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josipa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Jòsip + -a.
- HRCroatia1 in 273(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.5K
- SISlovenia1 in 9.5K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273 (inferred from the name graph)
15,466 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
From Jòsip + -a.
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josipa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #51 | 15,466 | 1 in 273 | 15K | Josipa | 94 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #346 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Josipa | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 178K | listed | Josipa | 69 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Josipa | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 25 | Josipa | 28 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 221 | 1 in 9.5K | 221 | — | 3 |
15,466 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); the de-munich-vornamen register; SURS — resident population given names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josipa Mauerb. 1930HRactress
- Josipa Lisacb. 1950HRCroatian pop singer
- Josipa Rimacb. 1980HRCroatian politician
- Josipa Burab. 1985HRCroatian basketball player (born 1985)
- Josipa Kusićb. 1988HRCroatian model
- Josipa Bokanovićb. 1991DEassociation football player
- Josipa Mamićb. 1996HRCroatian handballer
- Josipa Jurkovićb. 1999HRCroatian rower (1999–)
- Josipa Jagodićb. 2004HRfigure skater
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15K | #60 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 312 | #335 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 305 | #338 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 298 | #346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 294 | #349 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 285 | #357 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 277 | #365 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 276 | #369 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 270 | #377 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 262 | #386 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 259 | #391 |
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 Josipa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Jòsip + -a. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Josipa have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Josipa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josipa.
- Where is Josipa most common?
- Josipa is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 273 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Josipa?
- A machine transcription gives /jo˨˦s̪ipa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Josipa a male or female name?
- Josipa is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Josipa?
- In the etymology graph, Josefina, Josephine and Josefa are forms of the same name in other languages; Jožica is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Josipa?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 15,466 people named Josipa in 2021, about 1 in 273 residents.
- How common is Josipa compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Josipa is the 51st most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josipaThe 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, “Josipa” — the 51st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.