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Yehoshua

#1,769 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Joshua

Yehoshua has been given to 2,442 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,769 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Yehoshua, 2025

1 in 36,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yehoshua: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joshua

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yehoshua means

Yehoshua is a form of Joshua.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yehoshua → Joshua. The family’s proposed meaning is “Yahweh is salvation”, recorded in the naming reference for Joshua.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joshua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,442 boys were recorded with the name Yehoshua between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,689 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,909 in 2020 to #1,769 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,981 in 2015 to #1,769 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yehoshua?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,000
92 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,769
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,978 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yehoshua 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yehoshua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yehoshuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yehoshua was born before 2010 — so the typical Yehoshua is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,442
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (778).

Is Yehoshua 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
+349
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+140
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+212
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.8%
Peak was 2019 (95)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,689
2019

Spellings of Yehoshua

Yehoshua is not the most common spelling — Yeshua is, with 47.0% against Yehoshua's 42.5%.

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 Yehoshua is used

Across 1910–2025, Yehoshua was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 34,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 7,143
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Yehoshua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yehoshua around the world

Where Yehoshua 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
    1997–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2023
    #4,618
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

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.

Notable people named Yehoshua

People whose public names include Yehoshua, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yehoshua in other languages

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

JoshuaYeshuaJesúsGiosuè

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

Yehoshua by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 140
Best rank ever
#1,689
2019
Peak year
2019
95 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,442
Count in 2025
92

Names similar to Yehoshua

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

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Names with a curve like Yehoshua

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

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Sibling names for Yehoshua

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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