Joselito
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joselito is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the male given name José.
- PHPhilippines1 in 1.2K◐
- DODominican Republic1 in 8.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- Sources
- 174 ●
- 1 in 9.0K ◐
across 8 countries
192K records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Meaning & origin●
a diminutive of the male given name José
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #135 | 135,502 | 110K rec. | — | 91K | Joselito | 99 |
| BR Brazil | — | 18,139 | 29K rec. | 1 in 12K | 21K | Joselito | 105 |
| PE Peru | — | 14,510 | 12K rec. | — | — | Joselito | 44 |
| MX Mexico | — | 3,145 | 2.9K rec. | — | 25 | Joselito | 61 |
| US United States | — | 2,977 | 28K rec. | 1 in 112K | 3K | Joselito | 174 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,884△ | 213 rec. | 1 in 9K | 1.9K | Joselito | 28 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #140 | 1,213 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Joselito | 15 |
| CO Colombia | — | 1,049 | 795 rec. | — | — | Joselito | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 793 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Joselito | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | 777 | 699 rec. | — | 1 | Joselito | 43 |
| AR Argentina | — | 627 | 446 rec. | — | 4 | Joselito | 33 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 626 | 614 rec. | — | — | Joselito | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese334K61%
- Spanish144K26%
- English47K9%
- French5.8K1%
- Indonesian3.9K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 333,830 | 61% |
| Spanish | 144,197 | 26% |
| English | 47,141 | 9% |
| French | 5,764 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 3,927 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Joselito 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 English, Spanish diminutive of Jose
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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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1958 | 1 |
| 1959 | 24 |
| 1960 | 31 |
| 1961 | 68 |
| 1962 | 72 |
| 1963 | 87 |
| 1964 | 84 |
| 1965 | 93 |
| 1966 | 78 |
| 1967 | 90 |
| 1968 | 109 |
| 1969 | 81 |
| 1970 | 105 |
| 1971 | 112 |
| 1972 | 79 |
| 1973 | 102 |
| 1974 | 75 |
| 1975 | 61 |
| 1976 | 46 |
| 1977 | 48 |
| 1978 | 45 |
| 1979 | 40 |
| 1980 | 26 |
| 1981 | 40 |
| 1982 | 39 |
| 1983 | 31 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 19 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 17 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2002 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 76 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Carlos Marín Tellob. 1968PEnot in their usual namePeruvian filmmaker
- Joselito Velázquezb. 1993MXMexican boxer
- Joselito M Razalresearcher
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 37 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking | 2022 | 91K | #93 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 21K | #1,362 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 21K | #440 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 18K | #1,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,661 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.9K | #494 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2005 | 820 | #2,199 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 185 | #9,564 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 172 | #4,699 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 84 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 75 | #2,572 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 310 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Joselito?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Joselito (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Joselito have the most bearers?
- Joselito is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled joselito.
- How common is Joselito compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Joselito is the 135th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
- Is Joselito a male or female name?
- Joselito 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 Joselito mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the male given name José
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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, “Joselito” — the 135th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.