Josy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Josephine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒuʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 57K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 102K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 7.6K
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)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,694 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josy 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 | 3,694 | 1 in 57K | 3.7K | Josy | 97 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Josy | 3 |
| FR France | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 740 | — | 2 |
| AO Angola | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Josy | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 1 | Josy | 73 |
| BE Belgium | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 2 | Josy | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Josy | 14 |
3,694 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); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Josy Stoffelb. 1928LULuxembourgian gymnast (1928–2021)
- Josy Moinetb. 1929FRFrench politician (1929–2018)
- Josy Eisenbergb. 1933FRFrench rabbi & animator (1933-2017)
- Josy Braunb. 1938LULuxembourgian writer, journalist (1938-2012)
- Josy Dubiéb. 1940BEBelgian politician and journalist
- Josy Kirchensb. 1943LULuxembourgish association football player
- Josy Gyr-Steinerb. 1949CHSwiss politician (1949-2007)
- Josy Bernardb. 1970FRFrench actress
- Josy Josephb. 1974INIndian writer and journalist
- Josy Blackb. 1992CMCameroonian pornographic actress (born 1992)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #3,380 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.8K | #4,873 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.7K | #2,243 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1976 | 740 | #918 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #3,380 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 79 | #21,761 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1969 | 50 | #882 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2019 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2021 | — | — |
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 Josy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Josephine. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Josy?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒuʃi/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Josy a male or female name?
- Josy 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.
- In which country does Josy have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Josy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josy.
- How common is the name Josy?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,694 people named Josy in 2022, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Josy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josyThe 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, “Josy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.