Joshau
Joshau was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 247 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 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 Joshau by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshau?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,520, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1985, the peak
Joshau peaked in 1985, when 20 boys were given it, #2,550 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,520 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,902 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,486 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,990 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,678 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,735 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,159 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,974 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,921 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,728 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 10 | #5,174 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,987 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,275 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,268 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,944 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,550 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,029 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,318 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,395 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,851 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,212 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,080 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,410 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,376 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,017 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshau a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshau has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshau: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshau, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Joshau and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 340 people named Joshau (0 women and girls, 340 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Joshau
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.