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Yeshua

#1,007 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yehoshuaʿ

Yeshua has been given to 2,703 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,007 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 229 recorded.

Babies named Yeshua, 2025

1 in 14,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yeshua: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yehoshuaʿ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yeshua means

Yeshua is a form of Yehoshuaʿ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yehoshuaʿ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,703 boys were recorded with the name Yeshua between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 229 in 2024; its best national rank was #985 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,527 in 2020 to #1,007 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,451 in 2015 to #1,007 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 Yeshua?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,700
225 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,590
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,007
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yeshua 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,214 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yeshua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yeshuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yeshua was born before 2016 — so the typical Yeshua is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,703
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (1,236).

Is Yeshua 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
−22
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+520
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+444
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.3%
Peak was 2024 (229)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#985
2024

Spellings of Yeshua

Yeshua is not the most common spelling — Joshua is, with 98.4% against Yeshua's 0.21%.

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 Yeshua is used

Across 2016–2025, Yeshua was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 12,143 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 7,143
  2. 2California1 in 7,692
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,692
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 9,091
  5. 5New York1 in 9,091
  6. 6Illinois1 in 14,286
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Georgia1 in 20,000

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.

Yeshua around the world

Where Yeshua 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
    1998–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,596
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yeshua in other languages

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

JesusJoshuaYehoshuaGesùJesús

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

Yeshua by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 520
Best rank ever
#985
2024
Peak year
2024
229 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,703
Count in 2025
225

Names similar to Yeshua

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

JeshuaJashuaYeshayaYoshuaYehoshuaYashuaYahshuaYeseniaNashuaJushuaYeshiaJahshuaYesiahToshuaJosehuaYeshayahuOshuaJoushuaElishuaShuaYesterJoshuaYesicaYestin

Names with a curve like Yeshua

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

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Sibling names for Yeshua

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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