Josue

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Joshua in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 14 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●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Josue is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name33K records spelled Josue7 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Josué, Josuê, Josúe, Josuè, Josuë

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name1.3K records spelled Josue2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Josué

• Finnish given name503 records spelled Josue10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Josué, Josuè, Jošûě, Jösüë, Jõšûè

• a separate given name409 records spelled Josue8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Ecuador

  Also written Josué, Josuę, Jösûè, Jösüê, J̶o̶s̶u̶e̶

• Sinhala given name391 records spelled Josue3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ecuador, Spain

  Also written Josuè, Josué

• Malay given name353 records spelled Josue2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Peru, Spain

  Also written Josué

50 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●

Josue is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Old Testament book

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In French, Origine hébraïque; signifie « Dieu est le salut ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In kne, Joshua (book of the Bible)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 111 years between 1903–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Josuë Duponb. 1864BEBelgian sculptor (1864-1935)
• Abisai Josue García-Mendozab. 1955MXMexican botanist
• Josue Dos Santosb. 1979BRBrazilian footballer
• Josue Esteban Espejab. 1985ESSpanish association football player
• Josue Souza Santosb. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
• Leycang El Grandiosob. 1992VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan singer
• Josué Gómezb. 1994MXMexican association football player
• Josué Sotob. 1995USAmerican soccer player
• Josue Mongeb. 1999CRCosta Rican association football player
• Josue Varelab. 2002USAmerican soccer 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 851 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Josue?

We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Josue (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Josue have the most bearers?

We estimate about 938 thousand people bear Josue in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joshua.

Where is Josue most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Josue is densest in Honduras — about 1 in 60 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Josue compared with other names?

In the United States, Josue is the 89th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Josue a male or female name?

Josue 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 Josue mean?

Recorded meaning: Obsolete form of Joshua.