Jove
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Jupiter, god of the sky
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xoβe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jove is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 18K
- ARArgentina1 in 112K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,742 people
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
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(measured from records)
Jupiter, god of the sky.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jove is read(measured from records)
Jove is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jove in Spanish.
- English19%
Jupiter, god of the sky.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
supreme Roman god (Jupiter)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Catalan6.6%
young
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jove, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jove 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 | — | 2,742 | 1 in 18K | 2.7K | Jove | 105 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Jove | 45 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Jove | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | #810 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Jove | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 405 | 1 in 112K | 405 | Jove | 39 |
2,742 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Jove 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 Latin, ablative singular of Juppiter
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)
- Plácido de Jove y Heviab. 1823ESSpanish politician (1823-1909)
- Manuel Joveb. 1941ESSpanish businessperson
- David Joveb. 1942CACanadian film producer
- Louis Joveb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Gustavo Joveb. 1967ARArgentinian musician
- Felipa Joveb. 1969ESpresident of the María José Jove Foundation
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.7K | #1,857 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,857 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 405 | — |
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
- What are other forms of the name Jove?
- In the etymology graph, Giove and Iovita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Jove mean, and where does it come from?
- Jupiter, god of the sky. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jove?
- A machine transcription gives /xoβe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Jove have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Jove, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jove.
- How common is the name Jove?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,742 people named Jove, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Jove compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Jove is the 810th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jove?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joveThe 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, “Jove” — the 810th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.