what is my name in spanish

Question

josh

Answer 1

As a matter of common courtesy, how you will be addressed depends on how you introduce yourself. In English I am largely indifferent to whether I am called "Sam" or "Samuel". In Spanish, French and Japanese I always introduce myself as "Samuel" (because those are the "standard" forms in those languages. In Japanese, because of the phonetic peculiarities of the language, they would want to say "samu" or "samueru" and the former can be confused with the honorific "-san", so I prefer "samueru".

Historically, there are often names with common origins (especially names taken from the Bible). However, they may be somewhat different, e.g. "Maria"/"Mary", "Pedro"/"Peter", "Jose"/"Joe", "Guillermo"/"William", etc. There is absolutely no requirement to "translate" a name, it's simply a matter of convention. No one, for example, speaks of "Guillermo Shakespeare" in Spanish. It's simply a name and needn't be translated.

Typically there are very few correspondences between the abbreviated forms of names. "Francis" is not too different from "Francisco" but Francis may well go by "Frank" while Francisco is usually called "Paco".

However, there are historical figures whose names are translated in multiple languages. Christopher Columbus is Cristofero Colombo in Italian and Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, for example. There are many others. - Deanski, Apr 18, 2011

Answer 2

Joshua = Josué

Answer 3

Well, Josh is a nickname, isn't it? Is your name Joshua, Josiah, Joseph? ( ... and this is not an exhaustive list) I know a fellow named Jerome who is called Josh. Maybe in Spain they would call you (whatever your name is) Josh ???