Josan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hoʊzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country.
- MDMoldova≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 46K
- ITItaly≈1 in 208K
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.
- Moldova (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | #321 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Josan | 7 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Josan | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Josan | 4 |
| US United States | — | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 267 | Josan | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 105 | 1 in 476K | 105 | Josan | 48 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Josan | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gurinder Josanb. 1972GBEnglish businessman and Labour Party politician (born 1972)
- Nicolae Josanb. 1983MDMoldovan footballer
- Cătălin Josanb. 1987MDMoldavian singer-songwriter
- Ion-Iosif JosanRORomanian politician from Vințu de Jos, Alba County
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 267 | #77,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 105 | #26,704 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 105 | #26,536 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,094 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Josan?
- A machine transcription gives /hoʊzən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Josan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 764 people named Josan in Moldova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josan.
- How common is the name Josan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Josan in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Josan compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Josan is the 321st most common surname of 6,301 surnames 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/josanThe 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, “Josan” — the 321st most common surname in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.