Joesiah — #4384 US boys' name
625 babies named Joesiah in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 69% of names given to boys today.
50% of everyone ever named Joesiah was born in this single decade.
41 babies were named Joesiah in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Joesiah
The Social Security Administration has registered 625 babies named Joesiah between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Joesiah currently holds the #4384 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 41 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Joesiah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 315 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Joesiah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Joesiah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Joesiah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 625 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Joesiah at a glance
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Current rank
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Joesiah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2000
- Peak year (2012)
- 41
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
Currently ranks #4384 among boys.
625 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 41 births in a single year.
Joesiah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 315 births that decade — 50% of Joesiah's all-time total
Joesiah decade highlights
- Peak decade 315 births
- Runner-up 186 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Joesiah's strongest decade
315 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Joesiah by state
Where Joesiah concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 64 | 10.2% |
| #2 | California | | 42 | 6.7% |
| #3 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.8% |
64 of 625 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 10.2% of nationwide
- California 6.7% of nationwide
- Kentucky 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 10.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.