Jože

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph

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

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

Jože is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 170(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 46K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jože itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

12,357 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 170 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JožeLatin(measured from records)
ЈожеCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joze in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia and 1 more.

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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jože 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 Jože is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#1512,3571 in 17012KJože69
BR Brazil—4,5801 in 46K9.2KJoze63
CO Colombia—≈170 est.≈1 in 285K—Joze14
ID Indonesia—≈150 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Joze14
US United States—1361 in 2.4M115Joze63
HR Croatia#9191301 in 33K130Jože24
MK North Macedonia—48as Јоже1 in 44K48—1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈44 est.≈1 in 87K—Jože2

12,357 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population 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)

Jože is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Joze, Jozé, Joz̆e

  • Ukrainian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Йоже, Joze, Жоз, Иоже, Józe

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia

    Also written Joze, Jozè

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Slovenia, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Joze, Jozé, Jozè, Jöze, Jôzë

  • Slovak given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Joze

19 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)

1850190019502000Jože Plečnik, b. 1872Jože Babič, b. 1917Jože Javoršek, b. 1920Jože Toporišič, b. 1926Jože Pučnik, b. 1932Jože Pogačnik, b. 1932Jože Snoj, b. 1934Jože Privšek, b. 1937Jože Dolmark, b. 1953Jože Podgoršek, b. 1974

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)

InformalŽivijo Jože,Hi Jože, (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 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Jože
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200816K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200916K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201016K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201116K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201215K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201315K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201415K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201515K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201614K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201714K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201814K#8
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201914K#8

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 Jože mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Jože?
In the etymology graph, Joe, Jo and Joey are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Josip and Jožef.
How do you pronounce Jože?
A machine transcription gives /jóːʒɛ/ (IPA) for Slovenian.
Is Jože a male or female name?
Jože is a male 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.
In which country does Jože have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Jože, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jože.
Where is Jože most common?
Jože is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 170 people carrying it.
How common is the name Jože?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 12,357 people named Jože in 2025, about 1 in 170 residents.
How common is Jože compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Jože is the 15th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jože” — the 15th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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