Joffre
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rosellonés del germánico Gauzfrid: 'godo protector' o 'protección del godo'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xoffɾe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joffre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 127K
- USUnited States1 in 768K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
15,549 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rosellonés del germánico Gauzfrid: 'godo protector' o 'protección del godo'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joffre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #235 | 15,549 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Joffre | 51 |
| US United States | — | 433 | 1 in 768K | 431 | Joffre | 114 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Joffre | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Joffre | 20 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Joffre | 6 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Joffre | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 60 | — | 6 |
15,549 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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 — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Joffre 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 Croatian, glavni zapovjednik francuskih vojnih snaga u miru i u slučaju rata (imenovan 1911) i na Zapadnom frontu u 1. svjetskom ratu; stekao slavu kao »Pobjednik Marne«; zaslužan za novu francusku vojnu strategiju u 1. svjetskom ratu prema Njemačkoj; od 1916. francuski maršal; napisao Memoare (1932)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Charles Hawtreyb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameEnglish film actor (1914-1988)
- Joffre Daranb. 1914FRFrench cyclist
- Joffre Dumazedierb. 1915FRFrench sociologist & scholar (1915–2002)
- Joffre Desiletsb. 1915CACanadian ice hockey player
- Joseph Maxime Joffre Daigleb. 1925CACanadian politician
- Joffre Llealb. 1971ESSpanish basketball player (born 1971)
- Joffre Pachitob. 1981ECEcuadorian footballer
- Joffre Guerrónb. 1986ECEcuatorian footballer
- Joffre Quintero BolañosECEcuadorian politician
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 39 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 179 | #106,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 141 | #114,852 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 60 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Joffre?
- A machine transcription gives /xoffɾe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Joffre a male or female name?
- Joffre 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.
- What does the name Joffre mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rosellonés del germánico Gauzfrid: 'godo protector' o 'protección del godo'.
- In which country does Joffre have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Joffre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joffre.
- Where is Joffre most common?
- Joffre is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Joffre?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 15,549 people named Joffre in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Joffre compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Joffre is the 235th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joffreThe 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, “Joffre” — the 235th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.