Jushua
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jushua has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1985, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Jushua, 1998
1 in 613,000
Jushua 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jushua?
Jushua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 613,000
- 6 of 3,677,189 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 318,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 424,807 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jushua sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 424,807 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jushua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jushuas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jushua was born before 1985 — so the typical Jushua is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 58.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 260
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 58.5% of all recorded uses (152).
Is Jushua 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 1985 (29)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jushua
Jushua is not the most common spelling — Joshua is, with 98.3% against Jushua's 0.02%.
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 Jushua is used
Across 1910–2025, Jushua was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Jushua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jushua by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jushua
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jushua
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.