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Jehoshaphat

Boys' name

Yahweh + to judge

Jehoshaphat has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Jehoshaphat, 2024

1 in 669,000

Jehoshaphat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jehoshaphat: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh + to judge

Hebrew

What Jehoshaphat means

Jehoshaphat means “Yahweh + to judge”, associated with יהוה and שָׁפַט.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט, from יהוה (“Yahweh”) + שָׁפַט (shafát, “to judge”), meaning "Yahweh has judged".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jehoshaphat (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Jehoshaphat is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Jehoshaphat comes through Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט‬.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jehoshaphat is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.ʃəˌfæt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Jehoshaphat between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,532 in 2023.

How common is Jehoshaphat?

Jehoshaphat 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jehoshaphat 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jehoshaphat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jehoshaphats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jehoshaphat was born before 2023 — so the typical Jehoshaphat is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
26
People you could plausibly meet
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2020s — 76.9% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Jehoshaphat 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,532
2023

Jehoshaphat around the world

Where Jehoshaphat 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jehoshaphat 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
—
Best rank ever
#8,532
2023
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Jehoshaphat

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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