Joska

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/dʒskə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Joska is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 52K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 76K
  • HRCroatia1 in 146K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

227 people

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Joska 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 Joska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2271 in 76K186—3
FI Finland1071 in 52K135——
CZ Czechia≈73 est.≈1 in 148K339Joska38
HR Croatia291 in 146K29——
US United States≈25 est.≈1 in 14Mlisted—6
SI Slovenia51 in 421K10——

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: MVČR — living population register 2017; 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); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Joska is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Jóska

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Joška

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Chile, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Joška, Jóska

29 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Joska Pilissy, b. 1938Joska Samuli Schielke, b. 1972Joska Versari, b. 1976

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)

InformalHi Joska,

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 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Joska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—186#3,773
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—158#6,217
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—119#2,702
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—107—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—41#7,542
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—29#15,942
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202121#3,717
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#28,598
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202111—

Reference works 2

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

How do you pronounce Joska?
A machine transcription gives /dʒskə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Joska a male or female name?
Joska is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Joska have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 227 people named Joska, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Joska most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joska 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 Joska?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 227 people named Joska, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.

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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, “Joska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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