Meaning
Józef is the Polish form of Joseph, Jozef the Slovak, and Josip the Croatian and Serbian. All descend from Latin Ioseph.
A literary Yousef
The novelist Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857. He learned English in his twenties and became one of its great prose stylists.
Polish history
Józef is woven through Polish history, from Józef Poniatowski, a general of the Napoleonic era, to Józef Piłsudski, a central figure in Poland's independence in 1918.
Nicknames
Józek and Józio in Polish, Joža in Croatian, Jožko in Slovak.
Fun factJózef has an accent mark AND a Z. It is Yousef in hard mode.