Joesiah
Joesiah was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,113 among boys’ names; 644 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joesiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joesiah?
#5,113 among boys’ names, 2025
Joesiah fell from #3,551 in 2015 to #5,113 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 11.1 per million.
41 babies in 2012, the peak
Joesiah peaked in 2012, when 41 boys were given it, #2,885 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,113 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,370 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,336 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,566 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,606 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,336 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,386 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,655 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,096 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,395 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,551 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,953 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,903 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,885 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,836 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,668 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,293 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,133 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,427 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,180 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,146 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,958 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,144 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,018 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,259 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,551 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joesiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joesiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joesiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joesiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 638 Americans named Joesiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 407 people named Joesiah (5 women and girls, 402 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 503 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 152,229 babies since 1880, Joesiah is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 5,614 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Joesiah
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 Joesiah and names like it
- Compare Joesiah and JosiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Joesiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Joesiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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