Josel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xosel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 136K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, 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)
Josel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Josel | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Josel | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 356 | 1 in 595K | 387 | Josel | 27 |
| US United States | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 243 | Josel | 116 |
| ES Spain | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 386K | — | Josel | 29 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Josel | 12 |
| HN Honduras | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Josel | 7 |
| AL Albania | 15 | 1 in 205K | 13 | — | — |
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); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
- Regina Barrab. 1886DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1886)
- Marja Joselb. 1907PLHolocaust victim (born 1907)
- Manfred Joselb. 1944ATAustrian musician
- Willi Joselb. 1948CHSchaffhausen politician (*1948)
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 387 | #16,807 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 384 | #7,371 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 356 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 344 | #16,903 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 268 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #29,211 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 183 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 113 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 85 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 70 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 69 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Josel?
- A machine transcription gives /xosel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Josel a male or female name?
- Josel 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 Josel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Josel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josel.
- How common is the name Josel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 356 people named Josel in 2022, about 1 in 595 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Josel?
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/joselThe 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, “Josel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.