Joza

given name · Latin script

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

/jo˨˦z̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 22K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 541K

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)

190 people, 2021

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Joza 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 Joza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1901 in 22K190——
BR Brazil1631 in 1.3M163Joza24
SI Slovenia1631 in 13K121—3
PH Philippines≈100 est.≈1 in 1M—Joza7
US United States≈40 est.≈1 in 8.3M116Joza15
PT Portugal≈19 est.≈1 in 541K—Joza3
CZ Czechia≈12 est.≈1 in 885K199——

190 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

Joza is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Joža, Jöza, Jóža

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Joža, Jōza

  • Czech given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jóža, Joža, Józa

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait

    Also written Jóža, Joža

  • Hungarian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Józa, Joža

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Joža

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Józa, Jóža, Joža

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Syria

    Also written Joža

35 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)

Joza is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, nominative singular definite of Jozë

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

InformalBok Joza,Hi Joza, (English)

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 19 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Joza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—199#8,503
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—199#5,625
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010116#143,149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020107#151,639
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Joza?
A machine transcription gives /jo˨˦z̪a/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Joza a male or female name?
Joza 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 Joza have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 190 people named Joza, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Joza most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joza is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Joza?
In Croatia, the national register counted 190 people named Joza in 2021, about 1 in 22 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, “Joza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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