Osypa
Almost no one in Poland carries this: about eleven women, and no girls have been given it this century. A Slavic form tied to Józef, from a root meaning "god will add".
Osypa Pronunciation
Osypa is pronounced o-SIH-pah (/ɔˈsɨpa/).
What Osypa means
Where Osypa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Osypa comes from Slavic ground, a relative of the name Poland knows as Józef. Both trace back to Joseph, and Joseph holds a simple meaning: god will add. The Hebrew Yosef was read as a wish for more, another child added to the house.
Osyp is the East Slavic form of Joseph, common in Ukrainian and among Polish neighbours to the east. Osypa turns that masculine name toward a feminine ending. It stays rare.
Picture a school register in a Podlasie town, the teacher pausing at Osypa before the more familiar Zofia below it. The Polish gloss keeps the older sense close: bóg wynagrodzi, god will reward, a reading that settled onto Józef after the first one. That first meaning was plainer. God will add, and the house grows by one name.
How many people are named Osypa
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Osypa. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15375 among female names.