Jeshua
Jeshua was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,585 among boys’ names; 2,628 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Jeshua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeshua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeshua?
#2,585 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeshua fell from #2,245 in 2015 to #2,585 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.3 to 29.9 per million.
165 babies in 2007, the peak
Jeshua peaked in 2007, when 165 boys were given it, #1,109 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,585 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,457 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,673 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,374 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,060 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,049 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,222 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,488 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,202 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,947 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,245 | 31.3 |
| 2014 | 93 | #1,662 | 48.4 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,773 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 91 | #1,681 | 48.0 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,381 | 63.7 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,410 | 61.5 |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,285 | 69.1 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,236 | 69.1 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,109 | 79.5 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,175 | 70.1 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,050 | 79.1 |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,066 | 75.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,231 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,572 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,556 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,398 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,689 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,142 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,707 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,560 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,373 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,366 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,535 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,052 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,567 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,380 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,502 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,471 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,506 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,462 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,291 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,751 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,371 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,033 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,826 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,720 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,835 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,855 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,100 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,593 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,531 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,221 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,931 | 7.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeshua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeshua has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jeshua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeshua, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,628 Americans ever recorded as Jeshua. The median Jeshua alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,043 people named Jeshua (32 women and girls, 2,011 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 709 |
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 Jeshua born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,823 | 1.1× |
| California | 7 | #2,084 | 1.4× |
Where Jeshua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeshua is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 1.4 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 Jeshua with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jeshua
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 Jeshua and names like it
- Compare Jeshua and TysenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJeshua peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeshua since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jeshua.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jeshua alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.