Joss or Jos

[BabyBlue31]

DS2 is imminent. We like the name Joseph with Jos or Joss for short but disagree on the correct spelling. Will people call him Joe anyway?

Joss and if you call him Joss a lot it will catch on instead of Joe

My Joss gets "Josh" a lot but is v quick to correct them
We have never had Joe

Joss/Jos - I never worry too much about x

Not if you call him Joss. They'll call him what you call him. I love that name.

Full name on BC But always known as...

I wouldn’t pronounce them the same. I’d pronounce Joss as written but I’d say Jos like “Joz”.

Our Joseph is a Joe. Jos/Joss is lovely too - I think whatever you call him will be what others use too. The cricketer Jos Buttler is a Joseph.

Great choice of name either way!!!

I’d go with Jos a la Jos Buttler.

Lovely shortening - if you use it, it will catch on. Most likely when he starts any childcare/educational setting you will be asked for his formal name and what he is known as.

I think double s looks right, I'd question Jos thinking maybe it's joz or "j-oh-s" but joss is obvious 😁 and a really nice nickname I like it

Jos is 'yoss' in some languages, e.g. I know a Dutch man who pronounces his name like that

All the josephs I know are Joes, Joses, or Sephs. Joss/Jos is short for Josephine surely?

The natural shortening for Joseph is Joe.

I know a Jocelyn who's nickname is Joss.

You say Joe seph and not Jos seph!

We call our Joseph Jos (pronounced Joe-ss) always shortened to Jos when written.
But often we call him Josie (Joe-see) always have, as part of a longer nickname.
To be honest I have 4 children and the nicknames we use were totally unplanned, these things just come about naturally.

In my head I said joss for joss and Joes (quick s) for jos

Why not let a nickname develop naturally, it may be completely unrelated to his name?

As a Dutch speaker I'd also pronounce Jos as 'yoss'

I’ve never thought of Joss as short for Joseph. Ds had a friend at primary school called Joss - it’s a lovely name.

Jos could be pronounced Joz, so go for Joss which is unambiguous.

Just call him Joss.

Joss would be a better spelling as Jos could be pronounced as Joz. Joseph nn Joss is great.

My son has a friend called Jos, which is short for Josiah. I think that it's much better than Joss.

Surprised that so many people are saying that if you use nickname Joss it will catch on and everyone else will use it. Usually people say the opposite - that you can’t choose the nickname other people will use, and I agree with that. You can call him Joss or Jos but you can’t guarantee others will. I didn’t even know Joss was a nn for Joseph - I thought it was a name in its own right. I’d always shorten Joseph to Joe and I think the majority of people would?

I’ve also never heard of nn Seph for Joe but now I have I love it! And it makes perfect sense too? Why aren’t there more Sephs around?

Seph pronounced Seff?! That's not nice imo.

Also, the emphasis of Joseph is on Jo.