Josmar
Masculine · “God will add”
Josmar joins the front of José to the front of María or Marco, and Latin America builds names this way on purpose.
How old is the name Josmar?
Josmar first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Josmar alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 700 people named Josmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Josmar most popular?
Josmar peaked in 2005, reaching #2237 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 2,302 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Josmar
Ours, offered as ours. Venezuela and Colombia produce compound given names at a rate few other places match — Josmar, Yorman, Yusmary, Deiwis — and the method is consistent: take the front of two names, usually the parents', and fuse them. It is a way of naming a child for both parents in one word. The practice is recent, deliberate, and generates genuinely new names rather than variants of old ones.
Meaningscholars disagree
God will add; and bitter or of the sea
José is Hebrew Yosef, may God add. The Mar- half is usually María, itself of unsettled meaning, or Marco from Mars. The blend is a modern Venezuelan and Colombian construction and no single reading is fixed.
Pronouncing Josmar
hos-MAR
Two syllables with the stress on the second; the j is a throat sound in Spanish.
Nicknames for Josmar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most boys named
- 200955 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2237reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- +10.0%22 in 2025, from 20
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Josmar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- José in Spanish — related form
- Josmary in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Josmars among us
people named Josmar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Josmar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anuj test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Josmar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anuj climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anuj's path sketches the road Josmar is walking now.
Josmar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Josmar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Josmar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves come from names with enormous records behind them.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- The Spanish j is a throat sound English speakers will render as a j.
- The compound has no fixed meaning of its own.
- It is unfamiliar outside Latin American communities.
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Masculine · #4539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Josmars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Josmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Josmar in 2025?
- Josmar ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Josmar?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Josmar — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Josmar with classmates?
- Josmar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Josmar
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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