Jósue
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jósue is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Iōsuē.
- HNHonduras1 in 60(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 286
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 412
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.
- Honduras (measured from records)
- #994 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60 (inferred from the name graph)
154,000 people, 2023
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Josue in US United States, HN Honduras, BR Brazil and 4 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)
- LatinIōsuē(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewיְהוֹשֻׁעַYehoshúa'(inferred from the name graph)via Iōsuē
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Latin Iōsuē.
Sources 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jósue 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #1 | 154,000 | 1 in 60 | 203K | Josue | 74 |
| BR Brazil | #359 | 112,149 | 1 in 1.9K | 112K | Josue | 152 |
| US United States | #974 | 60,561 | 1 in 5.5K | 60K | Josue | 403 |
| GT Guatemala | #7 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | — | Josue | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | #689 | 38,545 | 1 in 439 | 39K | Josue | 71 |
| SV El Salvador | #33 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | — | Josue | 75 |
| CR Costa Rica | #7 | 10,037 | 1 in 508 | 10K | Josue | 98 |
154,000 people counted by RNP — cumulative registry names, 2023, counting the spelling josué. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RNP — cumulative registry names; The page reports on the most common names for children in Honduras based on data from the National Registry of Persons (; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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 Jósue mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Iōsuē. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Jósue a male or female name?
- Jósue 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 Jósue have the most bearers?
- In Honduras, the national register counted about 154 thousand people named Jósue, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josue.
- Where is Jósue most common?
- Jósue is densest in Honduras, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jósue?
- In Honduras, the national register counted 154,000 people named Jósue in 2023, about 1 in 60 residents.
- How common is Jósue compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Jósue is the most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B3sueThe 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, “Jósue” — the most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.