Jōs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jōs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *jos. Originally the lative singular of joka; jo- + -s (lative suffix).
- ECEcuador1 in 29as Jose(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 40as Jose
- BRBrazil1 in 41as Jose
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jōs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29 (inferred from the name graph)
5,164,752 named Jose, 2022
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Ecuador, as Jose
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled John in US United States and Jose in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic *jos. Originally the lative singular of joka; jo- + -s (lative suffix).
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jōs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 5,164,752as Jose | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | — | — |
| US United States | 3,125,123as John | 1 in 106 | 3.1M | John | 13 |
| EC Ecuador | 590,465as Jose | 1 in 29 | 590K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 487,678as Jose | 1 in 103 | 532K | Jose | 2 |
| HN Honduras | 170,919as José | 1 in 54 | 171K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 127,526as Jose | 1 in 40 | 128K | — | — |
5,164,752 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNP — cumulative registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jōs mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *jos. Originally the lative singular of joka; jo- + -s (lative suffix). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 3 other sources.
- Is Jōs a male or female name?
- Jōs 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.
- In which country does Jōs have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 million people named Jose, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jōs most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Jōs itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 29 people named Jose.
- How common is the name Jōs?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,164,752 people named Jose in 2022, about 1 in 41 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C5%8DsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Jōs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.