Joós
surname · Latin script
Joós is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Joos.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.9K
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joos in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 2 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)Borrowed from Dutch Joos.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joós 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Joos | 115 |
| BE Belgium | #782 | 2,183 | 1 in 5.4K | 2.2K | Joos | 58 |
| US United States | — | 1,243 | 1 in 268K | 1.4K | Joos | 217 |
| CH Switzerland | #774 | 1,062 | 1 in 7.9K | 1.1K | Joos | 44 |
| FR France | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 90 | — | 2 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Joós | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 3 | Joos | 17 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Péter Joósb. 1908association football player
- László Joósb. 1944HUHungarian actor
- István Joósb. 1953HUCanoe racer
- Tamás Joósb. 1962HUbard, musician, performer, director of culture house
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Joós mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Joos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Joós have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Joós in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joos.
- Where is Joós most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joós is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Joós?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,183 people named Joós in 2008, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Joós compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Joós is the 774th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo%C3%B3sThe 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, “Joós” — the 774th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.