Jose
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: misspelling of José
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xose/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jose 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.
- 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
misspelling of José
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jose is read(measured from records)
Jose is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish56%
misspelling of José
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jose in Portuguese.
- English8.6%
Spanish form of Joseph; God shall add.
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jose 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jose is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme hispanique de Joseph; d’origine hébraïque, lié à « Dieu ajoute ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
variant of Joyce.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Lithuanian, third-person plural locative of jos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jusepe de Riberab. 1591ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1591–1652)
- José Saramagob. 1922PTPortuguese novelist (1922–2010)
- José Mujicab. 1935UYUruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
- José Felicianob. 1945USPuerto Rican musician
- Xanana Gusmãob. 1946TLnot in their usual namePrime Minister and former President of East Timor
- Rudi Garciab. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager
- Cote de Pablob. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean-American actress
- José Jeríb. 1986PELawyer and former President of Peru
- Vózinhab. 1986CVnot in their usual nameCape Verdean association football player (born 1986)
- José María Giménezb. 1995UYUruguayan association football player
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)
Attested in 118 sources across 65 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.8M | #10 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 5.7M | #1 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.2M | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.1M | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2M | #16 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 590K | #1 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 116K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23K | #2 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #16 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.4K | #109 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Jose mean, and where does it come from?
- misspelling of José Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jose a male or female name?
- Jose 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 Jose have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 million people named Jose, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jose.
- How common is the name Jose?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,164,752 people named Jose in 2022, about 1 in 41 residents.
- How common is Jose compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Jose is the 2nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Jose?
- A machine transcription gives /xose/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Jose?
- In the etymology graph, Joseph, Joe and Yusuf are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Jose?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joseThe 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, “Jose” — the 2nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.