Yosyp
A Ukrainian name with Hebrew roots, carrying the sense "he will add". Fewer than 500 men in Poland go by it, and most Poles have never met one.
Yosyp Pronunciation
Yosyp is pronounced ih-O-sihp (/ɨˈɔsɨp/).
What Yosyp means
Where Yosyp comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yosyp is the Ukrainian form of Yosef, a Hebrew name whose root means "he will add." Some old readings widen that into a small blessing, "may God add," as if the name looked ahead to more than the person holding it. The word travelled from Hebrew scripture into Greek and Latin as Joseph, and from there into Ukrainian speech as Yosyp.
The name has no diminutives listed here, no softer variants to fall back on. It stands on its own.
In Ukrainian life Yosyp belonged to farmers, priests, and parish clerks whose names filled the church books. A Polish teacher reading a class register might pause on it, an eastern neighbour set down among the Józefs. The spelling marks a border more than a real difference. Behind both forms sits the same Hebrew verb of adding, the same forward-tilted hope that something will grow. Yosyp means "he will add."
How many people are named Yosyp
1 in 43832 men in Poland is named Yosyp. 487 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1331 among male names.
Yosyp as a middle name
Yosyp is a first name for 487 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 9098th, between Yosyf (2) and Youri (2).
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#9096 Yossi2
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#9097 Yosyf2
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#9098 Yosyp2
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#9099 Youri2
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#9100 Yousri2