Joshoa
Joshoa was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 97 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshoa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,736, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1987, the peak
Joshoa peaked in 1987, when 12 boys were given it, #3,844 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #10,736 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,420 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,781 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,421 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,867 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,844 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,622 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,041 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,183 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,304 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #5,854 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,883 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,519 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,018 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,788 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshoa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshoa, and how old are they?
An estimated 91 Americans named Joshoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 133 people named Joshoa (1 woman or girl, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93 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 Joshoa
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.