Josian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɔsjɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 766K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 91K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 113K
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
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
840 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
France, 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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josian 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 | 840 | 1 in 252K | 905 | Josian | 46 |
| FR France | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 1.4K | Josian | 2 |
| US United States | 434 | 1 in 766K | 387 | Josian | 77 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Josian | 10 |
| HN Honduras | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Josian | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 8 | — | 9 |
| RE Réunion | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 172K | 5 | — | 1 |
840 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). 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)
- Josian Ribesb. 1972FRFrench politician
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2003 | 1.4K | #1,972 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 905 | #9,808 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 840 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 790 | #4,479 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 782 | #9,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 387 | #22,790 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 122 | #19,552 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #9,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47 | #22,790 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 1967 | 40 | #52 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 1968 | 35 | #56 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 1971 | 30 | #56 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Josian?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɔsjɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Josian a male or female name?
- Josian 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 Josian have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 840 people named Josian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josian.
- How common is the name Josian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 840 people named Josian in 2022, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Josian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josianThe 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, “Josian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.