Giuseppe

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jose in BR Brazil, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 10 more, Joseph in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 8 more, Josef in CZ Czechia and Jozef in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Giuseppe is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name47K records spelled Giuseppe5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States, Switzerland

  Also written Giüseppe, Gìùsèppè, Gìusèppè, Giùsèppè

• a separate given name7.8K records spelled Giuseppe2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Giusèppe

• Finnish given name4.2K records spelled Giuseppe4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Gìùsèppè

• Turkish given name3.4K records spelled Giuseppe10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Türkiye, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh

  Also written Gìùsèppè, Gìuseppe, Giusèppe, Giùsèppè

• Greek given name868 records spelled Giuseppe3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Greece, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Τζουζεππε, Giusèppè

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Giuseppe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Italian form of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef; St Joseph.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Italian, Joseph (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, Dall'ebraico; nome reso celebre da san Giuseppe, sposo di Maria e patrono della Chiesa cattolica.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, In ebraico R I'Aggiiinto n. Principalmente venerat.0 S. Ckiuseppe aposo di Xaria, Patrono dclla Cliiesn

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

• In Italian, do nome hebraico Yoseph; patronímico fixado

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1905–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Giuseppe Piazzib. 1746ITItalian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
• Giuseppe Mazzinib. 1805ITItalian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
• Giosuè Carduccib. 1835ITnot in their usual nameItalian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
• Pius XIIb. 1876ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
• John XXIIIb. 1881ITnot in their usual namehead of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
• Giuseppe Ungarettib. 1888ITItalian poet, writer and university teacher
• Sandro Pertinib. 1896ITnot in their usual nameItalian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
• Giuseppe Saragatb. 1898IT5th President of Italy (1898-1988)
• Giuseppe Farinab. 1906ITItalian racecar driver (1906-1966)
• Giuseppe Meazzab. 1910ITItalian association football player and manager (1910-1979)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 828 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Giuseppe?

We estimate roughly 9.8 million people bear Giuseppe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Giuseppe have the most bearers?

Giuseppe is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled jose.

How common is Giuseppe compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Giuseppe is the most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.

Is Giuseppe a male or female name?

Giuseppe 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.

What does the name Giuseppe mean?

Recorded meaning: Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Peppo.