Josei
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A class of manga written for an older female audience
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xosei/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 757K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 793K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 815K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 757K (inferred from the name graph)
203 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A class of manga written for an older female audience.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josei 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 | 203 | 1 in 1M | 221 | Josei | 26 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Josei | 9 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 5 | Josei | 28 |
| PE Peru | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 757K | — | Josei | 15 |
| CO Colombia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Josei | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 815K | — | Josei | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | Josei | 8 |
203 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 221 | #23,797 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 211 | #11,275 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 203 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 177 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 166 | #25,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 113 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 60 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 53 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 42 | #38,655 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #25,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 34 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Josei mean, and where does it come from?
- A class of manga written for an older female audience. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Josei?
- A machine transcription gives /xosei/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Josei a male or female name?
- Josei 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 Josei have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 203 people named Josei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josei.
- How common is the name Josei?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 203 people named Josei in 2022, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joseiThe 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, “Josei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.