Jashua
Jashua was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,820 among boys’ names; 1,710 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Jashua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jashua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jashua?
#12,820 among boys’ names, 2025
Jashua fell from #7,269 in 2015 to #12,820 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
73 babies in 1987, the peak
Jashua peaked in 1987, when 73 boys were given it, #1,123 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,820 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,371 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,471 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,252 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,173 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,987 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,352 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,886 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,297 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,497 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,269 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,446 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,381 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,341 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,279 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,204 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,819 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,852 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,461 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,425 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,117 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,609 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,063 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,655 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,758 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,592 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,579 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,024 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,416 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,309 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,035 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 49 | #1,784 | 25.4 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,578 | 29.1 |
| 1992 | 46 | #1,807 | 23.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,773 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,503 | 27.8 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,369 | 32.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,560 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,123 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,233 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,151 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,411 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,299 | 28.5 |
| 1982 | 50 | #1,327 | 27.6 |
| 1981 | 45 | #1,420 | 25.1 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,747 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,070 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,154 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,304 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,549 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,814 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,993 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,312 | 6.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,637 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jashua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jashua has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jashua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jashua, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,710 Americans ever recorded as Jashua. The median Jashua alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 995 people named Jashua (5 women and girls, 990 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 791 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 579 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jashua born?
The states with the most babies named Jashua are New York, California and Florida, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 205 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 161 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 60 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jashua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jashua is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jashua with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,841 babies since 1880, Jashua is the most given (93% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jashua
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jashua and names like it
- Compare Jashua and JahshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJashua peaked in 1987.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jashua since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jashua.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jashua alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.