Juho

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jooho in VN Vietnam, IT Italy, CN China and 2 more and 주호 in KR South Korea, MO Macao.

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 18 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◐

Juho is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name400 records spelled Juho2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States

  Also written Jūho

• Russian surname172 records spelled Juho11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Finland, Belarus

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Юхо, Yuho, Jucho

40 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●

Juho 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 Serbo-Croatian, vocative singular of juha

  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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• J. H. Erkkob. 1849FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet and playwright (1849–1906)
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlbergb. 1865FIPresident of Finland (1865-1952)
• Juho Kusti Paasikivib. 1870FI7th President of Finland (1870-1956)
• Juho Vennolab. 1872FIFinnish economist and politician (1872-1938)
• Juho Sunilab. 1875FIPrime Minister of Finland (1875-1936)
• Juho Niukkanenb. 1888FIFinnish politician and Minister of Defense (1888-1954)
• Hannes Kolehmainenb. 1889FInot in their usual nameFinnish long-distance runner
• Eljas Erkkob. 1895FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (1895-1965)
• Juho Kuosmanenb. 1979FIFinnish film director
• Juho Paukkub. 1986FIFinnish tennis 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 · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Juho?

We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Juho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Juho have the most bearers?

Juho is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled 주호.

Where is Juho most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Juho is densest in Finland — about 1 in 209 people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.

How common is Juho compared with other names?

In South Korea, Juho is the 476th most common given name of 65,496 given names recorded there.

Is Juho a male or female name?

Juho 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 Juho mean?

Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., finnische Kurzform von