Josué

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Joshua (the book of the Bible)

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

/xoswe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Josué 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.

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

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JosuéLatin(measured from records)
조수Hangul(measured from records)

3 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)

French form of Joshua, from Hebrew Yehoshua 'Yahweh is salvation'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Josué is read(measured from records)

Josué is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish77%

    Joshua (the book of the Bible)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Hebrew Yeho-shúah; "Yahvé saves"

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese8.3%

    Joshua (book of the Bible)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French5.8%

    French form of Joshua, from Hebrew Yehoshua 'Yahweh is salvation'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Joshua

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Josué 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 Josué 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)

Josué is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Josue͏̈, Josúe, Josuë, Josuê, Josuè

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Josue

  • Czech given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Spain, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Josue, Jöśüë, Josuě, Jõšûě, Josuè

  • a separate given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Peru, Spain

    Also written Josue, J̶o̶s̶u̶e̶, Josúe, Josuę, Jösüê

45 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

05001000150020002500Jesus Christ, b. 7Jason, b. 300Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, b. 1979David Silva, b. 1986Bryan Oviedo, b. 1990Josué Pesqueira, b. 1990Pervis Estupiñán, b. 1998Josué Duverger, b. 2000Damián Bobadilla, b. 2001

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)

InformalHola Josué,Hi Josué, (English)

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 38 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Josué
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HN HondurasRNP — cumulative registry names2023154K#2
HN HondurasRNP — cumulative registry names2022152K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—92K#502

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

Where does the name Josué come from?
French form of Joshua, from Hebrew Yehoshua 'Yahweh is salvation'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Josué?
In the etymology graph, Jesus, Joshua and Josh are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Josué?
A machine transcription gives /xoswe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Josué a male or female name?
Josué 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.
What does the name Josué mean?
In Spanish, Joshua (the book of the Bible)
In which country does Josué have the most bearers?
In Honduras, the national register counted about 154 thousand people named Josué, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josue.
Where is Josué most common?
Josué is densest in Honduras, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 people carrying it.
How common is the name Josué?
In Honduras, the national register counted 154,000 people named Josué in 2023, about 1 in 60 residents.
How common is Josué compared with other names?
In Honduras, Josué 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, “Josué” — the most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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