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Jozsef - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Jozsef

[ syll. joz-sef, jo-zs-ef ] The boy name Jozsef is pronounced JHAAZSehF KEY. Jozsef's origin is Hebrew, and its use, Hungarian. Jozsef is a variation of the English, French, and German Joseph. Variants of the name include the German and Hungarian pet form Joscha and the Hungarian pet form Joska.

Jozsef is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. Within the group of boy names directly related to Jozsef, the English, French, and German Joseph was the most regularly used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Jozsef include the Hungarian József, the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob, the Hungarian Jakab, the English Jakeb, the Russian Jakiv, the English, German, and Scandinavian Jakob, the Hungarian, Russian, and Slavic Jakov, the English Jeffy, the English and German Jephthah, the English Jessup, the English Joab, the Lapp Joba, the Spanish Jobo, the Finnish Joosef, the Czech, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Yiddish Josef, the Slavic Josep, the English, French, and German Joseph, the English and French Josephe, the Slavic Josif, and the Slavic Josip.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Jozsef: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; Z as in "zee (Z.IY)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; F as in "fee (F.IY)"


 
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