Jòsë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jòsë is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 20
- NINicaragua≈1 in 23
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #5 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 613 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15 (inferred from the name graph)
5,164,752 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jose in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 6 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)
From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jòsë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #2 | 5,164,752 | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | Jose | 270 |
| VE Venezuela | #1 | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 20 | — | Jose | 193 |
| US United States | #20 | 1,211,106 | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Jose | 613 |
| AR Argentina | #2 | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | 4K | Jose | 212 |
| PE Peru | #2 | ≈780,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | 696K | Jose | 201 |
| EC Ecuador | #201 | 590,465 | 1 in 29 | 590K | Jose | 159 |
| SV El Salvador | #1 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 15 | 1 | Jose | 142 |
| NI Nicaragua | #2 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 23 | — | Jose | 115 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #2 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 27 | 5 | Jose | 139 |
5,164,752 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENIEC — DNI population names; This page details the top 100 names by frequency in El Salvador, published by Students of the World.; INEC — civil registry names; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jòsë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Jòsë a male or female name?
- Jòsë 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 Jòsë have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 million people named Jòsë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jose.
- How common is the name Jòsë?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,164,752 people named Jòsë in 2022, about 1 in 41 residents.
- How common is Jòsë compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Jòsë is the 2nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B2s%C3%ABThe 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, “Jòsë” — the 2nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.