Josafat

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Hebrew Yeho-sha-fat; "Yahvé is judge" / "judged by Yahvé" (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/xo.saˈfat̪/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Josafat is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.

  • MXMexico≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 34K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 110K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,900 people, est.

Record sources
120 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Mexico, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Josafat

  • Spanish:/xo.saˈfat̪/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Hebrew Yeho-sha-fat; "Yahvé is judge" / "judged by Yahvé"

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Josafat 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 Josafat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico—≈7,900 est.≈1 in 17K44Josafat120
US United States—7851 in 424K753Josafat107
PE Peru—≈300 est.≈1 in 115K—Josafat27
BR Brazil—2181 in 971K230Josafat28
PH Philippines—≈150 est.≈1 in 756K—Josafat15
CR Costa Rica#8611481 in 34K148Josafat13
CL Chile—≈120 est.≈1 in 160K2Josafat22
SV El Salvador—≈26 est.≈1 in 239K—Josafat8

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Josáfat

35 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)

Josafat is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Jehoshaphat

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

  • Dios es mi juez

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)
14001600180020002200Josaphat Kuntsevych, b. 1580Yosafat Moshchych, b. 1976Joe Mendes, b. 2002
  • Josaphat Kuntsevychb. 1580UAnot in their usual nameRuthenian Catholic archbishop, martyr and saint
  • Yosafat Moshchychb. 1976UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Greek-Catholic bishop
  • Joe Mendesb. 2002SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer

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)
InformalHola Josafat,Hi Josafat, (English)

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)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Josafat mean, and where does it come from?
Hebrew Yeho-sha-fat; "Yahvé is judge" / "judged by Yahvé" Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Josafat?
In Spanish /xo.saˈfat̪/ (Wiktionary).
Is Josafat a male or female name?
Josafat is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and Spain (INE).
Which countries have the most people named Josafat?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Josafat in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josafat. After it come United States, Peru, Brazil and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Josafat?
In the United States, the national register counted 785 people named Josafat in 2020, about 1 in 424 thousand residents.
How common is Josafat compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Josafat is the 861st most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Josafat” — ranked 913th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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