Giosuè
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joshua
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Stadt München Open Data, 2016
/d͡ʒoˈzwɛ/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Giosuè is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.4M
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Giosue in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Joshua
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Giosuè counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 126 | Giosuè | 83 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 6 | Giosue | 63 |
| DE Germany | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | Giosue | 29 |
| FR France | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Giosuè | 1 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | Giosuè | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 333K | 9 | Giosue | 10 |
| PE Peru | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Giosue | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 488K | — | Giosue | 7 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 728K | — | Giosue | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Giosuè is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dall'ebraico Yehoshua, 'il Signore salva'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Si ritiene che Gesù sia una abbreviazione o variante di questo nome, di cui il significato t. N il Signore che salva n; ebraico Ieho, sciuah. I n uso più tra i Prote- stanti che tra i Cattolici, sebbene la Chiesa lo festeggi il 10 settembre. Giova -Iona. Vedi Colomba.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Dio è salvezza
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian form of JOSHUA .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giosue Scottib. 1729ITpainter
- Giosuè Rituccib. 1794ITsoldier, politician and minister of war in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Italy
- Giosuè Melib. 1816IT(1816-1893)
- Giosuè Carduccib. 1835ITItalian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
- Giosuè Cattarossib. 1863ITCatholic bishop (1863-1944)
- Giosuè Lombardib. 1893ITItalian bicycle racer (1893–1959)
- Giosuè Ligiosb. 1928ITItalian politician
- Giosuè Stucchib. 1931ITItalian footballer (1931–2021)
- Giosuè Bonomib. 1978ITroad bicycle racer
- Giosuè Fioritib. 1989ITItalian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2015 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2016 | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Giosuè mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Joshua Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Giosuè?
- In the etymology graph, Jesus, Joshua and Josh are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Giosuè?
- In Italian /d͡ʒoˈzwɛ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Giosuè a male or female name?
- Giosuè is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Giosuè have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Giosuè in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giosuè.
- How common is the name Giosuè?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30 people named Giosuè, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Giosuè?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giosu%C3%A8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Giosuè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.