Yahshua
#7,653 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yahshua has been given to 343 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,653 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Yahshua, 2025
1 in 301,000
Yahshua 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yahshua?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,653
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yahshua sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yahshua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yahshuas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yahshua was born before 2016 — so the typical Yahshua is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 343
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Yahshua 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
- −843
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,123
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −994
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.85×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.8%
- Peak was 2016 (24)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Yahshua
Yahshua is not the most common spelling — Yeshua is, with 34.6% against Yahshua's 4.4%.
Where Yahshua is used
Across 1910–2025, Yahshua was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,468,095 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 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. Yahshua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Yahshua by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yahshua
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yahshua
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.