Joshka
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Joshka is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 52Kas Joska
- NLNetherlands1 in 76Kas Joska
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Joshka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)
227 named Joska
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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)Joshka 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 | 227as Joska | 1 in 76K | 186 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 107as Joska | 1 in 52K | 135 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 29as Joška | 1 in 146K | 29 | — | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | 7as Јошка | 1 in 304K | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6as Joska | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 5as Joška | 1 in 421K | 10 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
227 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); State Statistical Office — living population names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #22,406 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #62,717 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Joshka a male or female name?
- Joshka 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 Joshka have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 227 people named Joska, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Joshka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joshka is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 5.1 million people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Joshka?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Joshka, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joshka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joshkaThe 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, “Joshka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.