Jehoshaphat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A biblical name meaning 'God has judged,' most famously associated with the fourth King of Judah, though also borne by this Solomonic official
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Jehoshaphat is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A biblical name meaning 'God has judged,' most famously associated with the fourth King of Judah, though also borne by this Solomonic official.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jehoshaphat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Jehoshaphat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A biblical name symbolizing divine justice, historically rare in modern usage but preserved in the idiom 'Jumping Jehoshaphat'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Derived from the Hebrew name Yehoshaphat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט), a combination of 'Yeho' (Yahweh) and 'shaphat' (to judge).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name signifies 'Yahweh has judged', expressing a theological reliance on divine justice.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Derived from the Hebrew components 'Yeho' (Yahweh) and 'shaphat' (to judge).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, the fourth Judean King after King Solomon and also the son of King Asa; father of King Joram (aka Jehoram.)
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)- George Jehoshaphat Mountainb. 1789CAAnglican bishop
- Joseph Harpurb. 1810AUnot in their usual namepolitician and journalist in New South Wales, Australia
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jehoshaphat mean, and where does it come from?
- A biblical name meaning 'God has judged,' most famously associated with the fourth King of Judah, though also borne by this Solomonic official. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Jehoshaphat?
- In the etymology graph, Josaphat, Jozafat and Yehoshafat are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jehoshaphat a male or female name?
- Jehoshaphat 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.
- In which country does Jehoshaphat have the most bearers?
- Jehoshaphat is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jehoshaphatThe 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, “Jehoshaphat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.