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Jeshua

#2,585 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yeshua

Jeshua has been given to 2,628 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,585 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 165 recorded.

Babies named Jeshua, 2025

1 in 65,000

Jeshua over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeshua: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yeshua

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeshua means

Jeshua is a form of Yeshua.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yeshua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,623 boys were recorded with the name Jeshua between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 165 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,050 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,049 in 2020 to #2,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,245 in 2015 to #2,585 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jeshua between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #16,466 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.

How common is Jeshua?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,585
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeshua 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 2025 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeshua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeshuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeshua was born before 2008 — so the typical Jeshua is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,623
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (1,026).

Is Jeshua 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
−128
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+464
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−340
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.9%
Peak was 2007 (165)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,050
2005

Spellings of Jeshua

Jeshua is not the most common spelling — Joshua is, with 82.8% against Jeshua's 0.17%.

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.

Where Jeshua is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeshua was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 82,475 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jeshua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeshua around the world

Where Jeshua 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
    2007–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1990–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jeshua

People whose public names include Jeshua, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jeshua by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 464
Best rank ever
#1,050
2005
Peak year
2007
165 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,623
Count in 2025
51

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,466
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeshua

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

JesiahJessiahJesseyYeshuaJessyJessiJashuaJessupJesseeJessenJestinJessicaJesperYoshuaYehoshuaJesaiahJestonJeseYashuaJesielJessieJessYahshuaJesson

Names with a curve like Jeshua

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jeshua, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LandanOsmarTeganAryaJavianAdrianoJuanpabloLandinMarekDemarionGeovannyCristofer

Sibling names for Jeshua

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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