Given name & surname
Joson
Joson is a surname from Hokkien. It is used in Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Joson through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 80 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 132 as a first name in 2020; 557 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Joson’s family of names
Joson has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joseph.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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