Josu
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josu is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 89th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script.
- HNHonduras1 in 60◐
- SVEl Salvador1 in 225
- AUAustralia1 in 314
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3M ●
- #218 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 589 ●
- 1 in 60 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
6.5M records
Official registry-verified
Honduras
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joshua in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 14 more, Josue in BR Brazil, HN Honduras, MX Mexico and 8 more and Josua in ID Indonesia, ZA South Africa.
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 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #89 | 938,250 | 4.8M rec. | 1 in 355 | 938K | Joshua | 589 |
| AU Australia | #44 | 369,612 | 167K rec. | — | 263 | Joshua | 328 |
| MX Mexico | #181 | 285,660 | 197K rec. | — | 390 | Josue | 196 |
| AR Argentina | #416 | 208,110 | 92K rec. | — | 565 | Josue | 84 |
| PH Philippines | #73 | 196,802 | 73K rec. | — | listed | Joshua | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | #180 | 194,154 | 131K rec. | — | 1K | Joshua | 277 |
| HN Honduras | #2 | 154,000△ | 73K rec. | 1 in 60 | 203K | Josue | 70 |
| PE Peru | #219 | 149,809 | 95K rec. | — | #13 | Josue | 93 |
| VE Venezuela | #178 | 147,089 | 100K rec. | — | — | Josue | 67 |
| SV El Salvador | #20 | 120,398 | 68K rec. | — | — | Josue | 76 |
| BR Brazil | #279 | 112,149 | 59K rec. | 1 in 1.9K | 112K | Josue | 152 |
| CA Canada | #108 | 109,931 | 58K rec. | — | 44 | Joshua | 238 |
Roughly 938K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 355). 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●
- Spanish31K72%
- Catalan6.1K14%
- English1.7K4%
- Portuguese8382%
- French5281%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 31,417 | 72% |
| Catalan | 6,106 | 14% |
| English | 1,739 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 838 | 2% |
| French | 528 | 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●
Josu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nap, alternative form of juso (found in the Ritmo cassinese)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Korejas Republikā (Dienvidkorejā; "Yosu"), Čollanamdo provincē, osta Korejas šauruma krastā, 295400 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Josu Iriondob. 1938ESCatholic bishop
- Josu Juaristib. 1964ESSpanish politician and journalist
- Josu Urrutiab. 1968ESSpanish football player/president
- Josu Sarriegib. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Josu Agirreb. 1981ESroad bicycle racer
- Josu Etxanizb. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Josu Hernáezb. 1985ESBasque footballer
- Josu Esnaolab. 1986ESSpanish footballer
- Josu Zabala Lópezb. 1993EScyclist
- Josu Etxeberriab. 2000ESSpanish cyclist
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 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.1K | #357 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.1K | #775 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49 | #8,341 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 31 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #16,622 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #134,601 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #10,856 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #28,383 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Josu?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Josu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Josu have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 938 thousand people bear Josu in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joshua.
- Where is Josu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Josu is densest in Honduras — about 1 in 60 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Josu compared with other names?
- In the United States, Josu is the 89th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Josu a male or female name?
- Josu 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/josuThe 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, “Josu” — the 89th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.