Hosia
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hosia has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1927, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Hosia, 1958
1 in 827,000
Hosia over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hosia?
Hosia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1958
- 1 in 827,000
- 5 of 4,133,550 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 424,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1958
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 573,033 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hosia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hosia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hosias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hosia was born before 1948 — so the typical Hosia is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Hosia rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1927 (5)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Hosia
Hosia is not the most common spelling — Josiah is, with 90.8% against Hosia's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Hosia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hosia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hosia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.