Jouvin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jouvin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Iupiter (gen. Iovis; cf.
- ESSpain1 in 3.8M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8M (inferred from the name graph)
13 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Iupiter (gen. Iovis; cf. Julio), the principal god of pagan Rome. It survived as a given name into the Middle Vars.: Joye, Joie. Cogns.: Fr.: Joie. It.: Gioia, Ioia, Lagioia. Dims.: Fr.: Joyet. It.: Gioiella, Gioiello.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jouvin 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.
13 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: INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jouvin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, du nom latin Jovīnus, dérivé de Jōvis « Jupiter ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Jacques Jouvinb. 1788FRFrench engineer
- Xavier Jouvinb. 1801FRFrench glove manufacturer (1801-1844)
- Benoît Jouvinb. 1810FRFrench journalist and music critic (1810-1886)
- Hippolyte Jouvinb. 1825FRFrench photographer (1825–1889)
- Philippe-Auguste Herménégilde Jouvinb. 1861CACanadian Catholic priest working in the United States
- Bernard Jouvinb. 1919FRFrench official
- Georges Jouvinb. 1923FRFrench trumpeter
- Victor JouvinFRFrench model maker
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Jouvin come from?
- from Iupiter (gen. Iovis; cf. Julio), the principal god of pagan Rome. It survived as a given name into the Middle Vars.: Joye, Joie. Cogns.: Fr.: Joie. It.: Gioia, Ioia, Lagioia. Dims.: Fr.: Joyet. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Jouvin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Iupiter (gen. Iovis; cf.
- In which country does Jouvin have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 13 people named Jouvin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jouvin.
- Where is Jouvin most common?
- Jouvin is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jouvin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 13 people named Jouvin, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jouvinThe 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, “Jouvin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.