Iosua

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ioʊsuə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Iosua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • RORomania≈1 in 135K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 334K

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.

United States (measured from records)

163 people, 2010

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iosua 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.

Where Iosua is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1631 in 2M210Iosua74
RO Romania≈160 est.≈1 in 135K—Iosua8
GB United Kingdom≈53 est.≈1 in 1.2MlistedIosua6
AU Australia≈29 est.≈1 in 888K1Iosua25
IT Italy≈27 est.≈1 in 2.3M8Iosua2
NZ New Zealand≈15 est.≈1 in 334K—Iosua15
SV El Salvador≈4 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Iosua1

163 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Iosua is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States

    Also written Íosua

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Iosua 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 Latin, a male given name, equivalent to English Joshua

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hawaiian, Joshua (biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Scottish Gaelic, Joshua

    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)

  • Ella IosuaNZbiostatistician at University of Otago in New Zealand

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)

FormalDear Iosua,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Iosua
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020210#93,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010163#108,734
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000132#121,058
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Iosua?
A machine transcription gives /ioʊsuə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Iosua have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 163 people named Iosua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iosua.
How common is the name Iosua?
In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Iosua in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Iosua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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