Josuah
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Josuah has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1978, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Josuah, 2004
1 in 764,000
Josuah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Josuah?
Josuah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 397,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Josuah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josuah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Josuahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Josuah was born before 1981 — so the typical Josuah is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 36
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Josuah 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 1978 (7)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Josuah
Josuah is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 62.7% against Josuah'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.
Josuah around the world
Where Josuah 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 & Wales1998–1998#2,419in 1998
- France1985–2022#5,942in 2022
- South Australia1976–1976#651in 1976
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Josuah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Josuah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Josuah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.