Joža
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/jóːʒa/(machine-generated) Slovenian · model-generated
Joža is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 190 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Joža is also written Јожа in Cyrillic.
- SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 22K
- CZCzechia≈1 in 470K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
190 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Joža in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Joža
- Slovenian:/jóːʒa/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Czech:/ˈjoʒa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joža 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.
190 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling joza. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Joža 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 Czech, a diminutive of the male given name Josef
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)- Joža Šebb. 1911HRCroatian actor
- Joža Horvatb. 1915HRCroatian writer (1915–2012)
- Joža Karasb. 1926USPolish-born Czech musician, educator and music historian
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Joža?
- It depends on the language: in Slovenian /jóːʒa/; in Czech /ˈjoʒa/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Joža a male or female name?
- Joža is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: Slovenia (SURS, 2025). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Joža?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 190 people named Joža, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joža. After it come Brazil, Slovenia and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Joža most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joža 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 Joža?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 190 people named Joža in 2021, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Joža?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo%C5%BEaThe 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, “Joža” — ranked 1201st in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.