Boys' name · since 1995
Jahshua
131 babies named Jahshua in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #15,649 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 131
- born since 1995
- 2000s
- peak decade
Jahshua sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 131 recorded since 1995.
Jahshua has 131 recorded births among boys since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2020.
- #15,649 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 131 born since 1995
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jahshua ranks #15,649 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 131 born since 1995, peaking in the 2000s.
- #15,649 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 131
- born since 1995
- 2000s
- peak decade
Jahshua's 131 recorded births place it above 65.53% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jahshua's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jahshua splits its recorded history at 2009: 39% of all births land in the more recent half, 61% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1999 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2008 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jahshua popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2020
- Peak year (2008)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Jahshua by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (64 births, 49% of the file).
2000s was Jahshua's strongest decade.
64 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Jahshua births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 23
1990s
23 births
- 2000s
2000s
64 births
- 2010s
2010s
39 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 64 births (49% of all-time use).
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- Jahshua's decade-level peak was the 2000s (64 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jahshua: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2008)
Similar record span (~25 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1995–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jahshua draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.