Josuè

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Josuè 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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

154,000 people, 2023

#994 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
403 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 60 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JosuèLatin(measured from records)
조수Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Josuè: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Josuè
  1. LatinIōsuē(measured from records)
  2. 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Josuè 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.

Where Josuè is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HN Honduras#1154,0001 in 60203KJosue74
BR Brazil#359112,1491 in 1.9K112KJosue152
US United States#97460,5611 in 5.5K60KJosue403
GT Guatemala#7≈42,000 est.≈1 in 412—Josue82
EC Ecuador#68938,5451 in 43939KJosue71
SV El Salvador#33≈23,000 est.≈1 in 286—Josue75
CR Costa Rica#710,0371 in 50810KJosue98

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Josuè is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Khmer given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Ecuador

    Also written Josue, Josué

  • Malagasy given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Madagascar, United States

    Also written Josue

  • Sinhala given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ecuador, Spain

    Also written Josue, Josué

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Josuè is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, Joshua

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Josuè under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Josuè mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Iōsuē. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Josuè a male or female name?
Josuè 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 Josuè have the most bearers?
In Honduras, the national register counted about 154 thousand people named Josuè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josue.
Where is Josuè most common?
Josuè is densest in Honduras, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 people carrying it.
How common is the name Josuè?
In Honduras, the national register counted 154,000 people named Josuè in 2023, about 1 in 60 residents.
How common is Josuè compared with other names?
In Honduras, Josuè is the most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.

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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, “Josuè” — the most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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