5-593: Yousaf is an alternative name of Joseph in Islam. Yousaf is also a given name and surname and an alternative of Joseph , Yousef , Yusuf , Yousuf and variants. People with the name include: Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef ( יוֹסֵף ). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef ", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling
10-520: A secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried. The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef : first, it is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ' : "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ' : "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son." The Jewish Encyclopedia says that it
15-572: Is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries . In Portuguese and Spanish , the name is " José ". In Arabic , including in the Quran , the name is spelled يوسف , Yūsuf . In Kurdish ( Kurdî ) , the name is Ûsiv or Yûsiv , Persian , the name is Yousef , and in Turkish it is Yusuf . In Pashto the name is spelled Esaf (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it
20-506: Is spelled Ousep (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil , it is spelled as "Yosepu"( யோசேப்பு ) The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph was one of the two names, along with Robert , to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where
25-610: The name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Israeli Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob 's eleventh son and Rachel 's first son, and known in the Hebrew Bible as Yossef ben- Yaakov . In the New Testament the most notable two are Joseph , the husband of Mary , the mother of Jesus ; and Joseph of Arimathea ,
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