Comments for the name Josef

This is a very beautiful name, but who wants to share his name with Stalin?

German pronunciation: YO-zef. [noted -ed]

Listen to the German pronunciation of Josef here:
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I usually prefer 'f' to 'ph', but this name makes me think of both Stalin and Mengele, which are not good associations! Of course, most people probably won't have that thought at all, and there's no real reason it shouldn't be used.

Pronounced as "Yaw-ZEHF". Josef´s pet forms: Joska, Joza, Jozhin, Zefan, Pepa, Pepé, Pepino, Pepito.

Stalin, baby! All the way! USSR! Soviet Union! All that jazz! But it's still a very nice name.

Famous bearers:
Jazz singer Josef Erich Zawinul, born 7 July 1932, Wien, Österreich. Date of Death: 11 September 2007, Wien, Austria. Singer Josef Vojtek, born 21 June 1965 Teplice, Czechoslovakia. Actor Josef Dvořák, born 25 April 1942, Horní Cerekev, Czechoslovakia.

Urgh. The f at the end makes it ugly in my opinion. Sorry to all Josefs out there.

Josef Kaplický (19th March 1889, Vysoké Mýto - 1st February 1962, Prague) was painter, graphic designer, sculptor, designer and theoretician.

Josef Kaplický (18th April 1995) was son of Jan Kaplický and grandson of Josef Kaplický (KAHP-lit-skee).

This spelling makes me think of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter hostage and fathered children with her.

Josef is a very cool name, but I don't like the English pronunciation Jo-seff. It's Yo-sef.

Makes me think of that Nazi physician Josef Mengele.

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German-born painter, designer, writer and teacher.

Josef Čapek (1887-1945) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, stage designer and writer.