Josuan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/xoswan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Josuan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 240K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 3M
- CLChile≈1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)
85 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)Josuan 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 | 85 | 1 in 2.5M | 85 | Josuan | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | 38 | 1 in 134K | 38 | Josuan | 5 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | 5 | Josuan | 43 |
| CO Colombia | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Josuan | 7 |
| FR France | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 10 | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 815K | — | Josuan | 3 |
| HN Honduras | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Josuan | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 10 | — | 5 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Josuan | 5 |
85 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 85 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #46,211 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 73 | #22,957 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 57 | #45,830 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 38 | #3,949 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 32 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 22 | — |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2016 | 10 | #223 |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2009 | 8 | #365 |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2008 | 8 | #355 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Josuan?
- In Spanish /xoswan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Josuan a male or female name?
- Josuan 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 Josuan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 85 people named Josuan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josuan.
- Where is Josuan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Josuan is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 134 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Josuan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 85 people named Josuan in 2022, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Josuan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josuanThe 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, “Josuan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.