Given name · also Latin
Josué
Josué is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Norman.
Original Hebrewיְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Josué comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Josué developed from יהושע.
Josué’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Josué shares an earlier linguistic root with Joshua. In French usage, Josué has a conventional equivalent in the Waray-Waray form Josue. In French usage, Josué has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joshua.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Josué has relatives in 68 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Josué comes from · 2 names
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 44
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- IosueLatin, io
- יְהוֹשֻׁעַHebrew
- יהושעroot · Hebrew, Yiddish
- Joshuadoublet · English, Spanish
- Josuewar, Tagalog
- YoshuaSwahili
- YushaIndonesian
- JosuaGerman, Swedish
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- IosuaRomanian, Hawaiian
- JozuePolish, Czech
- Jozuazea, Dutch
- ИисусRussian
- Księga JozuegoPolish
- یوشعPersian
- JosvaNorwegian, Greenlandic
- GesueleNeapolitan
- 约书亚记cdo
- 約書亞記cdo
- HōhuaMāori
- Ktieb ĠożwèMaltese
- JozuėLithuanian
- ヨシュア記Japanese
- GiosuèItalian
- JósúaIcelandic
- JózsuéHungarian
- ἸησοῦςAncient Greek
- ΙησούςGreek
- იესოGeorgian
- XosuéGalician, Asturian
- IósuaIrish
- Jo Adelinefrc
- JoosuaFinnish
- JósvaFaroese
- Joosua raamatEstonian
- JosuoEsperanto
- JošuaCroatian, Serbo-Croatian
- GhjosuèCorsican
- 约书亚Chinese
- JosuèCatalan
- YehoshouaBreton
- ИсусBelarusian
- YuşəAzerbaijani
- ՅեսուArmenian
- يوشعArabic
People named Josué
- JosuéBrazilian association football playerborn 1979
- Josué PesqueiraPortuguese footballerborn 1990
- Josué DuvergerHaitian-Canadian soccer playerborn 2000
- Josué de CastroBrazilian physician, writer and activist against world hunger (1908–1973)
- Josué CasimirHaitian footballerborn 2001
- Josué MartínezCosta Rican footballerborn 1990
- Josué SáPortuguese footballerborn 1992
- Josué BalamandjiCentral African footballerborn 1989
- Josué QuijanoNicaraguan professional defenderborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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