Jose

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jose is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: misspelling of José.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala1 in 10◐
  • CUCuba1 in 12
  • VEVenezuela1 in 16

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈9.8M ●

across 11 countries

#4 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
618 ●

71M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 25 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JoseLatin · Portuguese●62M records
ЙосипCyrillic · Ukrainian●130K records
ᲘოსებGeorgian · Georgian●15K records
โจเซฟThai · Thai●1.5K records
ג'ושHebrew · Hebrew●341 records
호세Hangul · Korean●164 records
ΙωσήφGreek · Greek●81 records
ՋուզեպպեArmenian · Armenian●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joseph in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 8 more, Josef in CZ Czechia, Jozef in PL Poland and Giuseppe in IT Italy.

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●

misspelling of José

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jose is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#111,814,4735.5M rec.—4.3KJose189
AR Argentina#310,981,3105.9M rec.—4KJose198
MX Mexico#29,569,6907.5M rec.—3.6KJose318
BR Brazil#25,164,7525.8M rec.1 in 415.8MJose263
PE Peru#24,191,4022.4M rec.—696KJose185
GT Guatemala#13,716,283227K rec.—3.2KJose151
US United States#71,598,75929M rec.1 in 2081.6MJoseph618
CL Chile#51,556,471141K rec.—1KJose195
GB United Kingdom#171,221,9991.2M rec.—946Joseph304
CU Cuba#101,006,80546K rec.——Joseph88
PH Philippines#7784,5791.1M rec.——Joseph190
TZ Tanzania#2772,54112K rec.——Joseph76

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese62M43%
  • Spanish58M40%
  • English14M10%
  • 2.8M2%
  • Aymara696K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese62,497,30143%
Spanish58,051,16540%
English14,061,66310%
2,787,1392%
Aymara696,0211%

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◐

Jose is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.9M records spelled Jose14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written José, Josè, Jóse, Jośe, Jose'

  • Indonesian given name66K records spelled Jose12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written José, Josè, 'Jose, Josê, Josė

  • Swahili given name65K records spelled Jose7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written José, Josè, Jose'

  • Hungarian given name60K records spelled Jose7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, Spain, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written José, Jösë, Josè, Jösê

  • Dutch given name58K records spelled Jose6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written José, Josè, Jose'

  • Malayalam given name55K records spelled Jose18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, India

    Languages: Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada

    Also written John, Josh, José, ജോസ്, Joss

  • Turkish given name16K records spelled Jose8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written José, Josè, Jose'

84 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●

Jose is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Forme hispanique de Joseph; d’origine hébraïque, lié à « Dieu ajoute ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Spanish form of Joseph; God shall add.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • variant of Joyce.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Lithuanian, third-person plural locative of jos

    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.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200013K · 2002

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Jose in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188084
188175
188295
188374
1884112
1885111
188685
188795
188899
188980
189093
189177
1892106
189384
189494
1895104
1896104
189785
1898110
189990
1900161
1901127
1902125
1903141
1904144
1905200
1906154
1907170
1908192
1909213
1910249
1911268
1912356
1913432
1914552
1915659
1916686
1917800
1918871
19191,026
19201,241
19211,210
19221,257
19231,325
19241,393
19251,449
19261,474
19271,636
19281,770
19291,692
19301,600
19311,360
19321,316
19331,171
19341,221
19351,168
19361,119
19371,087
19381,158
19391,098
19401,169
19411,194
19421,310
19431,373
19441,512
19451,607
19461,859
19472,091
19482,262
19492,441
19502,638
19512,683
19522,689
19533,016
19543,227
19553,313
19563,398
19573,472
19583,425
19593,579
19603,915
19613,757
19623,827
19634,012
19643,976
19653,966
19664,194
19674,417
19684,794
19695,185
19705,691
19716,004
19725,935
19736,097
19746,720
19756,967
19767,061
19776,919
19787,148
19797,848
19808,323
19818,773
19828,624
19838,073
19848,013
19858,403
19868,363
19878,737
19889,007
198910,331
199011,519
199111,727
199211,824
199311,847
199411,731
199511,781
199612,155
199711,929
199812,374
199912,155
200012,585
200112,144
200212,868
200312,394
200412,187
200512,065
200611,604
200711,252
20089,826
20098,818
20107,703
20116,766
20126,041
20135,627
20145,485
20155,177
20165,119
20174,815
20184,318
20194,135
20203,855
20214,002
20224,031
20233,725
20243,784
20253,678

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Jusepe de Ribera, b. 1591José Saramago, b. 1922José Mujica, b. 1935José Feliciano, b. 1945Xanana Gusmão, b. 1946Rudi Garcia, b. 1964Cote de Pablo, b. 1979José Jerí, b. 1986Vózinha, b. 1986José María Giménez, b. 1995
  • Jusepe de Riberab. 1591ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1591–1652)
  • José Saramagob. 1922PTPortuguese novelist (1922–2010)
  • José Mujicab. 1935UYUruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
  • José Felicianob. 1945USPuerto Rican musician
  • Xanana Gusmãob. 1946TLnot in their usual namePrime Minister and former President of East Timor
  • Rudi Garciab. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager
  • Cote de Pablob. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean-American actress
  • José Jeríb. 1986PELawyer and former President of Peru
  • Vózinhab. 1986CVnot in their usual nameCape Verdean association football player (born 1986)
  • José María Giménezb. 1995UYUruguayan 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●

Attested in 115 sources across 65 countries.

Official registers attesting Jose
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—5.8M#10
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—5.7M#1
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20225.2M—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.1M#2
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2M#16
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024590K#1
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—532K#3
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—488K#5
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—128K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020116K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—36K#400
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23K#2

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,626 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jose?
We estimate roughly 9.8 million people bear Jose (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Jose have the most bearers?
Jose is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled jose.
How common is Jose compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Jose is the most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Jose a male or female name?
Jose 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 Jose mean?
Recorded meaning: misspelling of José
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Jose” — the most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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