Joža

given name · Latin script

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

Joža 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
  • CZCzechia≈1 in 590K

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

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
18 (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)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JožaLatin(measured from records)
ЈожаCyrillic(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

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.

Where Joža is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1901 in 22K190Joža18
BR Brazil1631 in 1.3M163——
SI Slovenia1631 in 13K121Joža4
CZ Czechia≈18 est.≈1 in 590K199——
RS Serbia≈11 est.≈1 in 650K—Joža8

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Joža is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jóža, Joza, Józa

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Joza, Jöza, Jóža

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Joza, Jōza

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Joza, Józa, Jóža

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Joza

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Joza

  • Urdu given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Joza

4 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)

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)

1880190019201940Joža Bekš, b. 1883Joža Glonar, b. 1885Joža Trdina, b. 1892Joža Vombergar, b. 1902Joža Šeb, b. 1911Joža Gregorin, b. 1913Joža Horvat, b. 1915Joža Mahnič, b. 1918Joža Karas, b. 1926Joža Lovec, b. 1939

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 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Joža
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008161#459
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009160#461
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010154#479
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012153#489
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011153#486
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014149#504
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013149#498
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015146#511
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017141#528
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2016141#524
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018139#539
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019136#545

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

Is Joža a male or female name?
Joža 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 Joža have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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, “Joža”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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