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Iosua

Boys' name

English equivalent of Joshua

Iosua has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2001, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Iosua, 2024

1 in 557,000

Iosua over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iosua: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Joshua

the Bible

What Iosua means

Iosua is a English equivalent of Joshua.

Origin, language, and formation

Iosua is used in Hawaiian and Latin. Its origins include the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joshua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Iosua between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,643 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Iosua?

Iosua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iosua sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iosua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iosuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iosua was born before 2006 — so the typical Iosua is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Iosua 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 2001 (7)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,643
2001

Spellings of Iosua

Iosua is not the most common spelling — Joshua is, with 94.6% against Iosua's <0.01%.

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.

Iosua around the world

Where Iosua ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2019
    #506
    in 2019
  • France
    2012–2025
    #4,067
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Iosua by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,643
2001
Peak year
2001
7 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iosua

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IosifJhosuaIosefaIosephJesuaJohsuaJosua

Sibling names for Iosua

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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