Osyp
Fewer than 70 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Ukrainian name with Hebrew roots, from a word meaning "God will add".
Osyp Pronunciation
Osyp is pronounced O-sihp (/ˈɔsɨp/).
What Osyp means
Where Osyp comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Osyp comes from the Hebrew Yosef, and the old sense of that name is "God will add." Across the border in Ukraine it settled as a full first name, the local shape of Joseph. Polish speakers met it near Przemyśl and Lwów, in parishes where Ukrainian and Polish names sat on the same page.
The name gathers no crowd of nicknames. There is no soft diminutive, no feminine twin. Osyp is simply Osyp.
Real people wore it. Osyp Makovei, the Ukrainian writer and poet, died in 1925 and signed his books that way. Osyp Turyansky wrote a novel of the First World War under the same name. Their careers give it a paper trail.
On a Polish school register, an Osyp would sit among the Józefs, one Hebrew root split into two spellings. The meaning holds: niech Bóg pomnoży, God will add.
How many people are named Osyp
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Osyp. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4405 among male names.