Josua
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Hebrew yēshūaʿ 'Yahweh helps / saves'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josua is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras1 in 60as Josué
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 286as Josue
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Josua itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Honduras (measured from records)
- #994 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
154,000 named Josué, 2023
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Josue in US United States, HN Honduras, BR Brazil and 4 more.
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(measured from records)
from Hebrew yēshūaʿ 'Yahweh helps / saves'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josua 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #1 | 154,000as Josué | 1 in 60 | 203K | Josue | 74 |
| BR Brazil | #359 | 112,149as Josue | 1 in 1.9K | 112K | Josue | 152 |
| US United States | #974 | 60,561as Josue | 1 in 5.5K | 60K | Josue | 403 |
| GT Guatemala | #7 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | — | Josue | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | #689 | 38,545as Josue | 1 in 439 | 39K | Josue | 71 |
| SV El Salvador | #33 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | — | Josue | 75 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Josua | 104 |
| CR Costa Rica | #7 | 10,037as Josue | 1 in 508 | 10K | Josue | 98 |
154,000 people counted by RNP — cumulative registry names, 2023, counting the spelling josué. 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; RNP — cumulative registry names; The page reports on the most common names for children in Honduras based on data from the National Registry of Persons (; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; the id-github-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Josua is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, Joshua, a prophet, author of the eponymous book
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Joshua (biblical book and prophet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joshua the Styliteb. 500not in their usual nameIranian historian
- Josua Levitab. 140115th century talmudist
- Osias Schorrb. 1814UAnot in their usual nameAustrian opinion journalist (1814–1895)
- Joshua Steinbergb. 1839LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian writer (1839–1908)
- Josua Eisenstadtb. 1855BY(1855-1918)
- Jozua François Naudéb. 1889ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African politician (1889-1969)
- Sven Sköldb. 1899SEnot in their usual nameSwedish composer and conductor (1899-1956)
- Josua Koroibulub. 1982FJFijian rugby league footballer
- Josua Tuisovab. 1994FJFijian rugby union player
- Josua Mejíasb. 1997VEVenezuelan association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,870 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 773 | #796 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 293 | #1,168 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 151 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144 | #30,950 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 112 | #17,294 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 91 | #37,975 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 23 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 19 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #9,870 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Josua mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew yēshūaʿ 'Yahweh helps / saves' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Josua a male or female name?
- Josua 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 Josua have the most bearers?
- In Honduras, the national register counted about 154 thousand people named Josué, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Josua?
- In Honduras, the national register counted 154,000 people named Josué in 2023, about 1 in 60 residents.
- How common is Josua compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Josua is the most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josuaThe 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, “Josua” — the most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.