Josép
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Josép is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yôsēp̄, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob.
- ESSpain1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 8.6K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 65K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
40,371 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Josep in ES Spain, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Jósep in IS Iceland.
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 Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yôsēp̄, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Josép 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #994 | 40,371 | 1 in 1.2K | 43K | Josep | 112 |
| US United States | — | 1,162 | 1 in 286K | 1.2K | Josep | 130 |
| BR Brazil | — | 320 | 1 in 662K | 320 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 78 | 1 in 65K | 78 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 56 | 1 in 309K | 56 | Josep | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | Josep | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | 41 | 1 in 8.6K | 41 | Jósep | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 16 | 1 in 212K | 16 | — | — |
40,371 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Josép mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yôsēp̄, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Josép a male or female name?
- Josép 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Josép?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Josép, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josep. After it come United States, Brazil, Costa Rica and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Josép most common?
- Josép is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Josép?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40,371 people named Josép, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Josép compared with other names?
- In Spain, Josép is the 994th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josép?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jos%C3%A9pThe 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, “Josép” — the 994th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.