Jouve
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jouve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 263K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 404K
- ESSpain1 in 575K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
87 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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)
Jouve 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 87 | 1 in 575K | 87 | Jouve | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 32 | 1 in 263K | 32 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 29 | 1 in 404K | 29 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
87 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Jouve is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, francuski pjesnik, romanopisac i glazbeni teoretičar kršćanske orijentacije; za vrijeme nacističke okupacije stvara u duhu otpora i objavljuje u Švicarskoj
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Auguste Jouveb. 1846FRFrench painter (1846-1887)
- Paul Jouveb. 1878FRFrench painter, sculptor, illustrator and ceramist (1878-1973)
- Pierre Jean Jouveb. 1887FRFrench novelist and poet (1887–1976)
- Paul Jouveb. 1894FRFrench politician (1894-1959)
- Jean Pierre Jouveb. 1926FRFrench architect (1926-2019)
- Edmond Jouveb. 1937FRFrench political scientist
- Roger Jouveb. 1949FRFrench footballer
- Valérie Jouveb. 1964FRFrench photographer (born 1964)
- Jérémy Jouveb. 1979FRFrench guitarist
- Richard Jouveb. 1994FRFrench cross-country skier
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 87 | #30,463 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 87 | #30,268 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 32 | #26,077 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 29 | #37,773 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #68,744 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #155,391 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Jouve have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 87 people named Jouve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jouve.
- Where is Jouve most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jouve is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 263 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jouve?
- In Spain, the national register counted 87 people named Jouve, about 1 in 575 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jouve?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jouveThe 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, “Jouve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.