Ioseb
The Georgian form of Joseph, tracing back to Hebrew Yosef and its verb for increase: it means "he will add," a child counted as one more. Rare in Poland, where fewer than 250 men carry this spelling and it reads foreign beside Józef.
Ioseb Pronunciation
Ioseb is pronounced YO-sep (/ˈjɔsɛp/).
What Ioseb means
Where Ioseb comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ioseb is the Georgian form of Joseph, and both go back to the Hebrew name Yosef. The same root gives the Hebrew verb yasaf, meaning to increase. The oldest sense is a piece of grammar turned into a wish: "he will add," a child counted as one more. Polish tradition renders this as "bóg przydał," God gave another.
The best documented bearer of this exact spelling was Ioseb Jughashvili, born in Gori in 1878, the man the world later knew as Stalin. That is a heavy inheritance, and honesty asks us to name it rather than hide it.
Still, the name reaches back long before any single life. In a Polish class register the spelling Ioseb would sit oddly beside Józef and Antoni, foreign yet legible. The Hebrew root has not changed. It still means "he will add."
How many people are named Ioseb
1 in 88573 men in Poland is named Ioseb. 241 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1997 among male names.