Josep
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josep is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Joseph (Biblical figure).
- 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 ●
- #4 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 618 ●
- 1 in 25 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
71M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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●
Joseph (Biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #1 | 11,814,473 | 5.5M rec. | — | 4.3K | Jose | 189 |
| AR Argentina | #3 | 10,981,310 | 5.9M rec. | — | 4K | Jose | 198 |
| MX Mexico | #2 | 9,569,690 | 7.5M rec. | — | 3.6K | Jose | 318 |
| BR Brazil | #2 | 5,164,752 | 5.8M rec. | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | Jose | 263 |
| PE Peru | #2 | 4,191,402 | 2.4M rec. | — | 696K | Jose | 185 |
| GT Guatemala | #1 | 3,716,283 | 227K rec. | — | 3.2K | Jose | 151 |
| US United States | #7 | 1,598,759 | 29M rec. | 1 in 208 | 1.6M | Joseph | 618 |
| CL Chile | #5 | 1,556,471 | 141K rec. | — | 1K | Jose | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | #17 | 1,221,999 | 1.2M rec. | — | 946 | Joseph | 304 |
| CU Cuba | #10 | 1,006,805 | 46K rec. | — | — | Joseph | 88 |
| PH Philippines | #7 | 784,579 | 1.1M rec. | — | — | Joseph | 190 |
| TZ Tanzania | #2 | 772,541 | 12K rec. | — | — | Joseph | 76 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish415K79%
- Catalan41K8%
- English24K5%
- Portuguese7K1%
- 6.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 415,245 | 79% |
| Catalan | 40,940 | 8% |
| English | 24,498 | 5% |
| Portuguese | 6,980 | 1% |
| 6,760 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1965 | 1 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1975 | 1 |
| 1980 | 1 |
| 1985 | 2 |
| 1986 | 3 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 38 |
| 2014 | 31 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 10 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 42 years between 1945–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Junípero Serrab. 1713ESnot in their usual nameChristian missionary
- Fernando Sorb. 1778ESnot in their usual nameSpanish classical guitarist and composer (1778-1839)
- Josep Puig i Cadafalchb. 1867ESCatalan architect (1867-1957)
- Josep Iturbi Bàguenab. 1895ESSpanish conductor and pianist (1895–1980)
- Josep Plab. 1897ESSpanish journalist (1897–1981)
- Josep Samitierb. 1902ESSpanish football player and manager (1902–1972)
- Josep Maria Maurib. 1941ESCatholic cleric and personal representative of the episcopal coprince of Andorra
- Josep Borrellb. 1947ESCatalan-Spanish diplomat and politician (born 1947)
- Josep Guardiolab. 1971ESSpanish association football manager and player (born 1971)
- Josep Martínezb. 1998ESSpanish footballer (born 1998)
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43K | #87 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40K | #200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #11,176 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 400 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 320 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 317 | #18,182 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 275 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 273 | #9,372 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 223 | #23,693 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 206 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 156 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 141 | #48,745 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 246 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Josep?
- We estimate roughly 9.8 million people bear Josep (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Josep have the most bearers?
- Josep is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled jose.
- How common is Josep compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Josep is the most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
- Is Josep a male or female name?
- Josep 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 Josep mean?
- Recorded meaning: Joseph (Biblical figure)
Query this name via API
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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, “Josep” — the most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.