Josue
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josue 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. Recorded meaning: Obsolete form of Joshua.
- 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)
- #994 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60 (inferred from the name graph)
154,000 people, 2023
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras
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)
Obsolete form of Joshua.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josue 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #1 | 154,000 | 1 in 60 | 203K | Josue | 74 |
| BR Brazil | #359 | 112,149 | 1 in 1.9K | 112K | Josue | 152 |
| US United States | #974 | 60,561 | 1 in 5.5K | 60K | Josue | 403 |
| GT Guatemala | #7 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | — | Josue | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | #689 | 38,545 | 1 in 439 | 39K | Josue | 71 |
| SV El Salvador | #33 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | — | Josue | 75 |
| CR Costa Rica | #7 | 10,037 | 1 in 508 | 10K | Josue | 98 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Josue is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old Testament book
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Origine hébraïque; signifie « Dieu est le salut ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In kne, Joshua (book of the Bible)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Josuë Duponb. 1864BEBelgian sculptor (1864-1935)
- Abisai Josue García-Mendozab. 1955MXMexican botanist
- Josue Dos Santosb. 1979BRBrazilian footballer
- Josue Esteban Espejab. 1985ESSpanish association football player
- Josue Souza Santosb. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
- Leycang El Grandiosob. 1992VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan singer
- Josué Gómezb. 1994MXMexican association football player
- Josué Sotob. 1995USAmerican soccer player
- Josue Mongeb. 1999CRCosta Rican association football player
- Josue Varelab. 2002USAmerican soccer player
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 73 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 112K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111K | #288 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 92K | #501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 60K | #802 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 39K | #58 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 12K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #52 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 737 | #288 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 469 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 239 | #802 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Josue mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of Joshua. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Josue have the most bearers?
- In Honduras, the national register counted about 154 thousand people named Josue, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josue.
- Where is Josue most common?
- Josue is densest in Honduras, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 people carrying it.
- Is Josue a male or female name?
- Josue 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.
- How common is the name Josue?
- In Honduras, the national register counted 154,000 people named Josue in 2023, about 1 in 60 residents.
- How common is Josue compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Josue is the most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josue?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josueThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Josue” — the most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.