Giuseppe

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

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)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

How Giuseppe is read●(measured from records)

Giuseppe 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.

• Italian62%

  Joseph (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Dall'ebraico; nome reso celebre da san Giuseppe, sposo di Maria e patrono della Chiesa cattolica.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  In ebraico R I'Aggiiinto n. Principalmente venerat.0 S. Ckiuseppe aposo di Xaria, Patrono dclla Cliiesn

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  do nome hebraico Yoseph; patronímico fixado

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• English11%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Giuseppe in English.

• German5.2%

  Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Peppo.

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

Giuseppe is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Italy, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Giueseppe, 'Giuseppe, Gìùsèppè, Gìuseppe, Gîûŝêppê

• Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States, Switzerland

  Also written Giüseppe, Gìùsèppè, Giùsèppè, Gìusèppè

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Giusèppe

• Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, United States

  Languages: Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Gìùsèppè

• Turkish given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

  Also written Gìùsèppè, Giùsèppè, Gìuseppe, Giusèppe

• Greek given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Greece, United States, Switzerland

  Also written Giusèppè, Τζουζεππε

42 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)

Giuseppe 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 French, Italian form of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef; St Joseph.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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)

• Giuseppe Piazzib. 1746ITItalian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
• Giuseppe Mazzinib. 1805ITItalian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
• Giosuè Carduccib. 1835ITnot in their usual nameItalian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
• Pius XIIb. 1876ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
• John XXIIIb. 1881ITnot in their usual namehead of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
• Giuseppe Ungarettib. 1888ITItalian poet, writer and university teacher
• Sandro Pertinib. 1896ITnot in their usual nameItalian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
• Giuseppe Saragatb. 1898IT5th President of Italy (1898-1988)
• Giuseppe Farinab. 1906ITItalian racecar driver (1906-1966)
• Giuseppe Meazzab. 1910ITItalian association football player and manager (1910-1979)

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).

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Giuseppe come from?

Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Peppo. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

What are other forms of the name Giuseppe?

In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Joe are forms of the same name in other languages; PePPe, Beppe and Peppino are recorded short or pet forms.

How common is the name Giuseppe?

In the United States, the national register counted 10,160 people named Giuseppe in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

How common is Giuseppe compared with other names?

In Italy, Giuseppe is the 3rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

What does the name Giuseppe mean?

In Italian, Joseph (biblical character)

Is Giuseppe a male or female name?

Giuseppe 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 Giuseppe have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 608 thousand people named Giuseppe in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giuseppe.