"Variant of Yosef"
The name Yossi is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Yossi is a familiar form of Yosef, the Hebrew form of Joseph, built with the -i ending that Hebrew and Yiddish use in everyday short forms of other names, as in Dovi from Dov and Moti from Mordechai. It is used as a given name in Hebrew-speaking and Yiddish-speaking communities and is considerably older than its first appearance in United States birth records in 1990, which reflects how rarely it has been registered in the US rather than the age of the name itself.
Yosef means "God will increase, God has added a child. A form of Joseph.".
The pronunciation of Yossi is YOH-see.
