Josiane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French feminine form from Joseph, ultimately Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josiane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Rwanda it is the 30th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 944
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 944 (inferred from the name graph)
131,077 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
French feminine form from Joseph, ultimately Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josiane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #339 | 131,077 | 1 in 1.6K | 137K | Josiane | 155 |
| FR France | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 123K | Josiane | 4 |
| CM Cameroon | #482 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 944 | — | Josiane | 11 |
| MG Madagascar | #181 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 1 | Josiane | 14 |
| RW Rwanda | #30 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Josiane | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Josiane | 49 |
131,077 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Josiane is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme féminine de Joseph; d'origine hébraïque, « Dieu ajoute ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French: elaborated form of JOSÉE , now occasionally also used in the English-speaking world.
as a word
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)
- Josiane Serreb. 1922FRFrench chemist (1922-2004)
- Josiane Lévêqueb. 1943FRFrench actress
- Josiane Stolérub. 1949FRFrench actress
- Josiane Aubertb. 1949CHSwiss politician
- Josiane Balaskob. 1950FRFrench actress, film director, writer and screenwriter (born 1950)
- Josiane Tanzillib. 1950ITItalian actress
- Josiane Vanhuysseb. 1953BEcyclist
- Josiane Bostb. 1956FRFrench racing cyclist
- Josiane Pinsonb. 1957FRFrench actress
- Josiane Shenb. 2000LULuxembourgish presenter
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)
Attested in 54 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 137K | #356 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 136K | #121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 131K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 131K | #250 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 123K | #2,961 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 659 | #5,095 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 539 | #250 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 457 | — |
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #329 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Josiane mean, and where does it come from?
- French feminine form from Joseph, ultimately Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Josiane have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 131 thousand people named Josiane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josiane.
- Is Josiane a male or female name?
- Josiane is a female 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 are other forms of the name Josiane?
- In the etymology graph, Josefina, Jo and Josephine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joséphine and Josèphe.
- How common is the name Josiane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 131,077 people named Josiane in 2022, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Josiane compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Josiane is the 339th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josianeThe 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, “Josiane” — the 339th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.