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Yusha

#5,595 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yehoshuaʿ

Yusha has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #5,595 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Yusha, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yusha: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yehoshuaʿ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yusha means

Yusha is a form of Yehoshuaʿ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yehoshuaʿ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 boys were recorded with the name Yusha between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,457 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,479 in 2020 to #5,595 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,474 in 2015 to #5,595 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 Yusha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,595
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yusha 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yusha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yushas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yusha was born before 2020 — so the typical Yusha is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Yusha 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
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,884
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,879
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.4%
Peak was 2023 (18)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,457
2023

Spellings of Yusha

Yusha is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 31.4% against Yusha's 0.41%.

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 Yusha is used

Across 1910–2025, Yusha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Yusha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yusha around the world

Where Yusha 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
    2005–2025
    #873
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #592
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yusha by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,595
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,884
Best rank ever
#5,457
2023
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Yusha

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

YusifYussefYussufZishaPashaYuseiArshaMishaYusukeTashaYusefAlishaYashaJoshaHarshaMugishaSashaMarshaMoshaOshaYusofRashaShaAsha

Sibling names for Yusha

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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