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Joshuah

#7,926 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Joshuah has been given to 2,873 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #7,926 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Joshuah, 2025

1 in 332,000

Joshuah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joshuah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joshuah means

Joshuah is a given name.

The naming story behind Joshuah

Wikidata records Joshuah as a given name. The entity identifier is Q107561601, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,873 boys were recorded with the name Joshuah between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1989; its best national rank was #972 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,802 in 2020 to #7,926 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,824 in 2015 to #7,926 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 Joshuah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,926
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joshuah 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joshuah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joshuahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joshuah was born before 1995 — so the typical Joshuah is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,873
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (782).

Is Joshuah 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
+2,434
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,124
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,102
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.4%
Peak was 1989 (106)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#972
1985

Spellings of Joshuah

Joshuah is not the most common spelling — Joshua is, with 88.7% against Joshuah's 0.20%.

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 Joshuah is used

Across 1910–2025, Joshuah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 134,267 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Joshuah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joshuah around the world

Where Joshuah 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    2012–2023
    #5,665
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,141
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1986–2006
    #419
    in 2006

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

Joshuah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joshuah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Joshua

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joshuah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,926
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,124
Best rank ever
#972
1985
Peak year
1989
106 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,873
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Joshuah

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

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Names with a curve like Joshuah

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

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Sibling names for Joshuah

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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