Joshan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒʃən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joshan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
Joshan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 9 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Joshan | 65 |
| GH Ghana | — | — | — | Joshan | 1 |
7 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #65,385 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Joshan?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒʃən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Joshan a male or female name?
- Joshan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Joshan have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 7 people named Joshan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Joshan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joshan is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Joshan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Joshan, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joshan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joshanThe 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, “Joshan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.