Johsua
Johsua was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 266 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johsua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johsua?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,501, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1989, the peak
Johsua peaked in 1989, when 22 boys were given it, #2,831 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,501 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,604 | 2.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,252 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,007 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,662 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,358 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,324 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,417 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,389 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,686 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 22 | #2,831 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,270 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,127 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,832 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,642 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,026 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,516 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,389 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,726 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,305 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,094 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,341 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,841 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,589 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johsua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johsua has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johsua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johsua, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Johsua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 35 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 213 people named Johsua (0 women and girls, 213 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johsua
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.