Yuzefa
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn girls have been given it since 2000. It's a Ukrainian feminine counterpart to Józef, from the Hebrew for "god will add".
Yuzefa Pronunciation
Yuzefa is pronounced ih-oo-ZE-fah (/ɨuˈzɛfa/).
What Yuzefa means
Where Yuzefa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name comes from Hebrew, from Yosef, and it means "God will add." Yuzefa is the feminine of Józef, the same root carried over from the man's name to the woman's. In Ukrainian usage the form settled into local speech, and Polish families near that border knew it too. The meaning stayed close to the source: "God will add," or in Polish "Bóg doda, Bóg pomnoży."
A girl called Yuzefa would often shrink to Ziuta at home. That diminutive did the daily work, in the yard and on the school register, while the full name waited for the imieniny and the official form at the urząd.
The promise inside the name is old. To add, to multiply, to grant one more: this was a hope for growth spoken over a child. The name does not describe the girl. It states a blessing that predates her, borrowed from Józef and handed on. Ziuta answered to it first, and Yuzefa stood written underneath.
How many people are named Yuzefa
1 in 460078 women in Poland is named Yuzefa. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5449 among female names.