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Joash

#4,612 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly fire of Yahweh

Joash has been given to 406 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,612 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Joash, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joash: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fire of Yahweh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joash means

Joash may mean “fire of Yahweh”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 406 boys were recorded with the name Joash between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,840 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,094 in 2020 to #4,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,615 in 2015 to #4,612 in 2025.

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 Joash?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,612
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joash 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joash. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joashs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joash was born before 2012 — so the typical Joash is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
406
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Joash 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
−772
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,482
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,003
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.9%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,840
2024

Spellings of Joash

Joash is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 42.6% against Joash's 0.03%.

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 Joash is used

Across 1910–2025, Joash was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 554,562 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Joash has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joash around the world

Where Joash 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Joash by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,482
Best rank ever
#3,840
2024
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
406
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Joash

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

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Sibling names for Joash

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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