Joshiah
Joshiah was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 114 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshiah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,233, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2005, the peak
Joshiah peaked in 2005, when 10 boys were given it, #7,378 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #9,233 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,106 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,065 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,430 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,042 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,168 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,480 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,205 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,393 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,426 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,614 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,097 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,378 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,238 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,194 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,996 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,238 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Joshiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 162 people named Joshiah (4 women and girls, 158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 Joshiah
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.