Joži
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: SURS, 2025
Joži is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 22K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 674K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jozi in BR Brazil, US United States, SI Slovenia and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joži 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Jozi | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 314 | 1 in 674K | 315 | Jozi | 49 |
| US United States | 210 | 1 in 1.6M | 201 | Jozi | 13 |
| IN India | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | — | Jozi | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 96 | 1 in 22K | 67 | Jozi | 10 |
| RS Serbia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Joži | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 2 |
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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joži Munih Petričb. 1906SISlovene writer
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Joži a male or female name?
- Joži 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Joži?
- Mondonomo estimates about 451 people named Joži in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jozi. After it come Brazil, United States, India and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Joži most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joži is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Joži?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 314 people named Joži in 2022, about 1 in 674 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Joži?
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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%BEiThe 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, “Joži”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.