Gender:
Origin:
Slavic
11 famous people named Yoseph found on Wikipedia.
825 male in US.
Most recent ranking:
5729-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
2773-th in year 1986
Joseph is a masculine given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yossef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. The name can be translated from Hebrew יוסף יהוה yosef YHWH as signifying "Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add".
The name appears in the book of Genesis: Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben-Yaakov.
In the New Testament there are two others named Joseph: 1) Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus; and, 2) Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried.
The form "Joseph" is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. In Persian the name is called "yousef" or "یوسف" . In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf. The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph was one of the two names, along with Robert, to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Willy Midel Yoseph | 1960 | |
2 | Yoseph Imry | 1939 | Israeli physicist |
3 | Yoseph Iskandar | 1953 | |
4 | Yoseph Bar-Cohen | American physicist | |
5 | Ghebreselassie Yoseph | Eritrean politician | |
6 | Yoseph Ostanika | 1991 | Indonesian footballer |
7 | Yoseph ben Ab-Hisda ben Yaacov ben Aaharon | 1919 | Samaritan high priest |
8 | Yoseph Colombo | 1897 | |
9 | Mar Yohannan Yoseph | Assyrian Church bishop | |
10 | Yoseph Phoa | 1967 | Badminton player |
11 | Yoseph Macwan | 1940 | Gujarati writer from India |