José - wikipedia José José Gender predominantly male Origin Word / name Latin : Iosephus, Greek : Ιωσήφ, Hebrew : יוֹסֵף Other names Related names Joseph, Xosé, Josefo Female forms : Josefa, Josée José is a predominantly Spanish form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language : in Spanish ( xoˈse ) and in Portuguese ( ʒuˈzɛ ) ( or ( ʒoˈzɛ ) ). In French, the name José, pronounced ( ʒoˈze ), is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of male name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie - José. José is also a Belgian Dutch male given name, pronounced ( ʒoːˈzeː ), and for which the female written form is Josée as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch however, José is a female given name, and is pronounced ( ˈjoːseː ) ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie - José or as a female first name in its own right ; it can also be short for the name Josina and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name Johanna. In England, Jose is originally a Romano - Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of Cornwall, where it was especially frequent during the fourteenth century ; this surname is pronounced / ˈdʒoʊz /, as in the English names Joseph or Josephine. According to another interpretation Jose is cognate with Joyce ; Joyce is an English and Irish surname derived from the Breton personal name Iodoc which was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Josse. In medieval England the name was occasionally borne by women but more commonly by men ; the variant surname Jose is local to Devon and Cornwall. The common spelling of this given name in different languages is a case of interlingual homography. Similar cases occur in English given names ( Albert, Bertrand, Christine, Daniel, Eric, Ferdinand ) that are not exclusive to the English language, and which can be found namely in French with a different pronunciation under exactly the same spelling. Contents 1 Spanish pronunciation 2 Portuguese pronunciation 3 French vernacular form 4 Female form 5 Diminutives 6 People 6.1 Mononyms 6.2 First names 6.3 Middle name 6.4 Surname 7 See also 8 Notes Spanish pronunciation English speakers tend to approximate the Spanish pronunciation ( xoˈse ) as / hoʊˈzeɪ / ; with a ( z ) rather than with an ( s ) sound. In Castilian Spanish, the initial ⟨ J ⟩ is similar to the German ⟨ ch ⟩ in the name Bach and Scottish Gaelic and Irish ⟨ ch ⟩ in loch, though Spanish ⟨ j ⟩ varies by dialect. Historically, the modern pronunciation of the name José in Spanish is the result of the phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives since the fifteenth century, when it departed from Old Spanish. Unlike today 's pronunciation of this name, in Old Spanish the initial ⟨ J ⟩ was a voiced postalveolar fricative ( as the sound `` je '' in French ), and the middle ⟨ s ⟩ stood for a voiced apicoalveolar fricative / z̺ / ( as in the Castilian pronunciation of the word mismo ). The sounds, from a total of seven sibilants once shared by medieval Ibero - Romance languages, were partly preserved in Catalan, Galician, and Occitan, and have survived integrally in Mirandese and in the dialects of northern Portugal. Portuguese pronunciation People with the Portuguese given name José ( ʒuˈzɛ ) usually have their name pronounced by English speakers approximately as `` joe say '', which is frequently heard in news media. Examples of this are for instance former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and football coach José Mourinho, whose names are commonly pronounced with some degree of precision by world media CNN and BBC by resorting to English sounds ( i.e. `` Joseph '' without the `` ph '', often sounding like `` zhoo - ZAY '' ). Historically, the conventional Portuguese spelling of the name was Joseph, just as in English, though variants like Jozeph were not uncommon. Following the 1910 revolution, the Portuguese spelling was modernized. The first Reform of Portuguese orthography of 1911 elided the final mute consonants ⟨ ph ⟩ and ⟨ th ⟩ from Biblical anthroponyms and toponyms ( e.g. Joseph, Nazareth ) and replaced them with the diacritic on the final ⟨ é ⟩, indicating the stress vowel ( e.g. José, Nazaré ). In Portuguese, the pronunciation of vowels varies substantially depending on the country, regional dialect or social identity of the speaker : in the case of the ⟨ o ⟩ ranging from / u / to / o / ; and in the case of ⟨ é ⟩, from / e / to / ɛ /. The Portuguese phonology developed originally from thirteenth - century Galician - Portuguese, having a number of speakers worldwide that is currently larger than French, Italian and German. In Portuguese the pronunciation of the graphemes ⟨ J ⟩ and ⟨ s ⟩ is in fact phonetically the same as in French, where the name José also exists and the pronunciation is similar, aside from obvious vowel variation and language - specific intonation. French vernacular form The French given name José, pronounced ( ʒoˈze ), is an old vernacular form of the French name Joseph, and is also popular under the female form Josée. The male form is current as a given name, or as short for Joseph as is the case of French politician José Bové. The same male form is also commonly used as part of female name composites, as is the case of French athlete Marie - José Pérec. In turn, the female form Josée is only used customarily either as a female first name or as part of a female name composite, with respective examples in French film director Josée Dayan and Canadian actress Marie - Josée Croze. Female form Both the Spanish and Portuguese female written forms of the name are Josefa, pronounced ( xoˈsefa ) in Spanish, and ( ʒuˈzɛfɐ ) in Portuguese. The name José also occurs in female name composites ( e.g. Maria José, Marie - José ). Josée is a French female first name, pronounced ( ʒoˈze ), and may also be coupled with other names in female name composites. Similarly, in Flemish, José is a male given name, for which the female written form is Josée, with both forms being pronounced ( ˈioːˌse ), but the spelling stems originally from neighboring French - speaking influence. In Dutch, however, José is pronounced ( ˈioʊˌseɪ ), which is a female given name in its own right, sometimes also used as short for the female name Josina. Examples are Olympic swimmer José Damen and pop singer José Hoebee. Diminutives One of the common Spanish diminutives of the name is Pepe, which is a repetition of the last syllable of the earlier form Josep. ( Popular belief attributes the origin of Pepe to the abbreviation of pater putativus, P.P., recalling the role of St Joseph in predominantly Catholic Spanish - speaking countries. ) In Hispanic America, the diminutives Cheché and Chepe also occur, as in Colombian soccer player José Eugenio ( `` Cheché '' ) Hernández and Mexican soccer player José ( `` Chepe '' ) Naranjo. In Portuguese, the most widely used diminutive form of the name is Zé, and less used forms include Zeca, Zezé, Zezinho, Zuca, and Juca. The augmentative of the diminutive may occur as in Zezão, as well as the diminutive of the diminutive Zequinha. People Mononyms José ( Dutch singer ) José, Prince of Brazil Joseph I of Portugal, also known as José I of Portugal First names José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist José Ádem ( 1921 -- 1991 ), Mexican mathematician José `` Zeca '' Afonso, Portuguese folk musician José de Alencar, Brazilian politician and writer José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero José Millán Astray, Spanish general and founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion José Bautista, Dominican baseball player José Bonaparte, Argentinian paleontologist José Antonio Bowen, American jazz musician and president of Goucher College José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister of Portugal José León Bernal, Spanish football player José Bové, French syndicalist José Burgos, Filipino priest and activist executed by the Spanish authorities José Luis Castillo, Mexican boxer José Canalejas, Spanish politician José Canseco, Cuban baseball player José Carreras, Catalan tenor José Corti, French publisher José Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rican boxer Jose Cuervo, Mexican tequila producer José Cura, Argentinian tenor José van Dam, Belgian operatic singer José Damen, Dutch Olympic swimmer José Delbo, Argentine comic book artist José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, Spanish professor of physiology at Yale University José Doreste, Spanish sailboat racer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer José Echegaray, Spanish statesman, dramatist and Nobel Prize in literature Jose Marcelo Ejercito, 13th President of the Philippines José Fabio, Paraguayan basketball player José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer José dos Santos Ferreira, Macanese poet and writer José Ferrer, Puerto Rican Academy Award Winning actor José María Figueres, President of Costa Rica ( until 1998 ) José Frèches, French historical novelist José Luis García - López, Spanish comic book artist José Aurelio Gay, Spanish football player and manager José Gaspar, Spanish pirate known as the last of the Buccaneers José Giovanni, French - Swiss writer and film director José González, Swedish - Argentine singer José Gómez, known as Joselito, famous Spanish matador José Manuel Soria, Spanish academic and politician José - Maria de Heredia, Cuban - born French poet José M. Hernández, American astronaut José Hoebee, Dutch pop singer José Miguel Insulza, Chilean politician, 9th Secretary General of the Organization of American States José Iturbi, Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist José Jardim, Curaçaoan politician José Jiménez, known as Joselito, child star from Spain José José, Mexican singer José Gregorio Liendo Vera, Chilean political activist José Ángel Gurría, Mexican economist and diplomat, Secretary General of the OECD José P. Laurel, first and only president of the brief Second Philippine Republic Jose Philip D'Souza, Indian politician José Lewgoy, Brazilian actor José Limón, Mexican modern dancer and choreographer José María Alfredo Aznar López, Prime Minister of Spain, 1996 -- 2004 José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist José Martí, Cuban poet and national hero José Mattoso, Portuguese historian José María Morelos, Mexican priest and rebel leader of the Mexican War of Independence José Mourinho, Manchester United football manager José Neto ( basketball ), Brazilian basketball coach José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher José Pedro Pérez - Llorca, Spanish politician José Luís Peixoto, Portuguese writer José Piñera, Chilean economist, architect of Chile 's private pension system José Ramos - Horta, President of East Timor ( until 2012 ) and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Spanish right wing party the Falange José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer José Reyes, American baseball player of Dominican descent José Rizal, Philippine national hero José de la Riva - Agüero, Marquis de Montealegre de Aulestia, Peruvian historian and Prime Minister of Peru José Enrique Rodó, Uruguayan essayist José de San Martín, 1st President of Peru José Sanjurjo, Marquis of the Rif, Spanish Army general José Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian José Saramago, Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate for literature José Sarney, President of Brazil ( until 1990 ), President of the Brazilian Senate José Graziano da Silva, American - born Brazilian agronomist and writer José Sisto, Commissioner of Guam José Sócrates, Portuguese prime minister ( until 2011 ) Jose Statham, New Zealand tennis player José Théodore, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender José Valentín, Puerto Rican baseball player Jose Antonio Vargas, Filipino American journalist and Pulitzer Prize José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer, philosopher and politician José Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese ethnographer and philologist José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Brazilian writer José Luis de Vilallonga, Marquis of Castellbell, Spanish author and actor José Vizcaíno, American baseball player José Wilker, Brazilian actor José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist Middle name António José de Almeida, President of Portugal ( until 1923 ) António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama, Portuguese politician Antonio José Cavanilles, Spanish taxonomist and botanist António José Severim de Noronha, 1st Duke of Terceira, Portuguese military officer and statesman António José da Silva, Portuguese dramatist Camilo José Cela, Spanish novelist and Nobel Prize in literature Francisco José Debali, Hungarian - born Uruguayan composer and author of the Uruguayan national anthem Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter Francisco José Urrutia Olano, Colombian diplomat and international jurist Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy Marie - José Nat, French actress Marie - José Pérec, French athlete and triple Olympic champion Marie - Josée Croze, Canadian actress Marie - Josée Saint - Pierre, French Canadian documentary filmmaker Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman Surname Edward José, Belgian film director and actor F. Sionil José, Filipino novelist * Jorge V. José, Mexican physicist Nicholas Jose, British - born Australian novelist Richard Jose, British - born American singer See also Jose José Antonio José Carlos José María Josefa ( given name ) San José ( disambiguation ) São José ( disambiguation ) Notes Jump up ^ Appendix : Flemish given names Jump up ^ Appendix : Dutch diminutives of given names Jump up ^ White, George Pawley. A Handbook of Cornish Surnames ( Dyllansow Truran - Cornish Publication, 1981 ). Jump up ^ Hanks, Patrick, et al. ( 2002 ) The Oxford Names Companion. Oxford U.P. ; p. 329 Jump up ^ Sangster, Catherine ( BBC Pronunciation Unit ) ( 2006, Sept 27 ). How to say Barroso ?. Retrieved 20 January 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/09/how_to_say_barroso.shtml Jump up ^ Cf. LEÃO, Duarte Nunes de, Orthographia da lingoa portuguesa ( Lisboa : por Ioão de Barreira, 1576 ). Cf. FEIJÓ, João de Morais Madureira, Orthographia, ou Arte de Escrever, e pronunciar com acerto a Lingua Portugueza ( Lisboa Occidental : na Officina de Miguel Rodrigues, 1734 ). Jump up ^ Josep M. Albaigès, Josep M. Albaigès i Olivart, Diccionario de nombres de personas ( Edicions Universitat Barcelona, 1993 ; ISBN 8447502643 ), p. 199. This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= José&oldid = 826521318 '' Categories : Given names Portuguese masculine given names Spanish masculine given names Hidden categories : All set index articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Brezhoneg Deutsch Español Esperanto Nederlands Norsk Português Suomi Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 19 February 2018, at 16 : 31. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: what is the origin of the name jose
Answer: Spanish form of the given name Joseph