Josean
given name · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of josear (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ʒuʃjɐn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Josean is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 2,314 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- ESSpain≈1 in 91Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 91K
- USUnited States1 in 517K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
2,314 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Josean
- Portuguese:/ʒuʃjɐn/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/xosean/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of josear
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Josean 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,314 | 1 in 91K | 2.6K | Josean | 66 |
| US United States | — | 644 | 1 in 517K | 623 | Josean | 117 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Josean | 62 |
| CU Cuba | #617 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Josean | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #227 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | Josean | 23 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Josean | 2 |
2,314 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)Josean 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 Romanian, inhabitant of the Țara de Jos region of Moldavia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, JOSEÁN, -Ă, joseni, -e, s. m. și f. (Înv. și reg.) Locuitor al Moldovei de sud.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Josean mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of josear Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Josean?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʒuʃjɐn/; in Spanish /xosean/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Josean a male or female name?
- Josean is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Josean?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Josean, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josean. After it come United States, Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Josean?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,314 people named Josean in 2022, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
- How common is Josean compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Josean is the 227th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josean?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joseanThe 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, “Josean” — ranked 2017th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.