Josefus
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josefus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 254◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 97K
- USUnited States1 in 537K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈69K ●
- Sources
- 133 ●
- 1 in 254 ◐
across 6 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Josephus in NL Netherlands, US United States, PH Philippines and 19 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #62 | 68,109△ | 645 rec. | 1 in 254 | 68K | Josephus | 54 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,722 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Josephus | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 991 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Josephus | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 708 | 139 rec. | — | — | Josephus | 25 |
| US United States | — | 619 | 7.8K rec. | 1 in 537K | 619 | Josephus | 133 |
| BE Belgium | — | 436 | 187 rec. | — | — | Josephus | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 421 | 384 rec. | — | — | Josephus | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | 302 | 292 rec. | — | 1 | Josephus | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 104 | 43 rec. | — | — | Josephus | 21 |
| AT Austria | — | 95 | 6 rec. | — | 2 | Josephus | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 76 | 88 rec. | — | — | Josephus | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 53△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | 3 |
Roughly 68K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 254). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian56734%
- Dutch52332%
- English51631%
- Spanish161%
- German91%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 567 | 34% |
| Dutch | 523 | 32% |
| English | 516 | 31% |
| Spanish | 16 | 1% |
| German | 9 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 475 | #1,697 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 111 | #7,365 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 109 | #15,466 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 92 | #8,423 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #120,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #127,380 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Josefus?
- We estimate roughly 69 thousand people bear Josefus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Josefus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 68 thousand people bear Josefus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled josephus.
- Where is Josefus most common?
- Josefus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 254 people carrying it.
- How common is Josefus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Josefus is the 62nd most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Josefus a male or female name?
- Josefus 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josefusThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Josefus” — the 62nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.