Joshuah
Joshuah was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,926 among boys’ names; 2,873 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,770 Americans named Joshuah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshuah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshuah?
#7,926 among boys’ names, 2025
Joshuah fell from #3,824 in 2015 to #7,926 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 5.9 per million.
106 babies in 1989, the peak
Joshuah peaked in 1989, when 106 boys were given it, #992 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,926 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,360 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,483 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,021 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,657 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,802 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,242 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,411 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,478 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,031 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,824 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,263 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,822 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,466 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,043 | 34.8 |
| 2010 | 70 | #1,979 | 36.5 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,021 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 73 | #1,960 | 35.8 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,355 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 88 | #1,633 | 42.8 |
| 2005 | 75 | #1,760 | 37.6 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,292 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,063 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 74 | #1,623 | 38.1 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,665 | 36.0 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,526 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,615 | 34.9 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,436 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,404 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,257 | 46.5 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,266 | 44.6 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,287 | 42.4 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,364 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,362 | 34.5 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,336 | 35.1 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,120 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 106 | #992 | 53.0 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,109 | 42.3 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,117 | 39.6 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,146 | 36.9 |
| 1985 | 88 | #972 | 47.6 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,306 | 28.3 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,086 | 37.9 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,127 | 36.4 |
| 1981 | 74 | #1,064 | 41.3 |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,029 | 43.7 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,123 | 37.2 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,550 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,383 | 26.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,758 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,032 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,860 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,320 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,707 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,657 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,701 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshuah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshuah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshuah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshuah, and how old are they?
2,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,873 Americans ever recorded as Joshuah. The median Joshuah alive today is 30 years old; half are between 20 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,065 people named Joshuah (5 women and girls, 2,060 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,737 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 225 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Joshuah born?
The states with the most babies named Joshuah are California, Texas and New York, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 303 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 161 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 70 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 66 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joshuah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Joshuah?
Joshuah is a less common spelling of Joshua: SSA has recorded 2,873 Joshuah and 1,253,882 Joshua since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,259,069 babies since 1880, Joshuah is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,788 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Joshuah
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 Joshuah and names like it
- Compare Joshuah and JoshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJoshuah peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joshuah since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Joshuah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Joshuah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.