Joseba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xosɛba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joseba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 8.8K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 77K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 258K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,698 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
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.
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joseba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #236 | 5,698 | 1 in 8.8K | 5.8K | Joseba | 152 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Joseba | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Joseba | 77 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Joseba | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 27 | Joseba | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 519K | 1 | Joseba | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Joseba | 7 |
5,698 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Joseba 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 Basque, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Joseph
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Basque form of JOSEPH .
as a word
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)
- Joseba Azkarragab. 1950ESBasque politician
- Joseba Sarrionandiab. 1958ESBasque writer
- Joseba Apaolazab. 1960ESBasque actor
- Imanol Idiakezb. 1972ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football player/manager
- Joseba Belokib. 1973ESSpanish cyclist
- Joseba Etxeberriab. 1977ESSpanish footballer and manager
- Joseba Llorenteb. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Joseba del Olmob. 1981ESSpanish footballer
- Joseba Arguiñanob. 1985ESSpanish chef
- Joseba Zalduab. 1992ESSpanish association football player
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.8K | #369 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.7K | #809 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #14,311 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #32,463 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1993 | 3 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2003 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1998 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1990 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1952 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2005 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2004 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Joseba?
- In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Joe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Joseba?
- A machine transcription gives /xosɛba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Joseba a male or female name?
- Joseba 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 Joseba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Joseba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joseba.
- Where is Joseba most common?
- Joseba is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Joseba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,698 people named Joseba, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Joseba compared with other names?
- In Spain, Joseba is the 236th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joseba?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josebaThe 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, “Joseba” — the 236th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.