Joshue
Joshue was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,900 among boys’ names; 1,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Joshue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshue?
#12,900 among boys’ names, 2025
Joshue fell from #10,043 in 2015 to #12,900 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
45 babies in 2004, the peak
Joshue peaked in 2004, when 45 boys were given it, #2,463 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,900 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,607 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,129 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,298 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,066 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,194 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,857 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,043 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,965 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,064 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #9,261 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,157 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,169 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,870 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,619 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,063 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,120 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,344 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,463 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,233 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,977 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,956 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,834 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,760 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,769 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,393 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,504 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,718 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,163 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,422 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,494 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,963 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,102 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,320 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,683 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,812 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,255 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,814 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,745 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,701 | 19.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,470 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,922 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,320 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,338 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,987 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,719 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,599 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,538 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,437 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,878 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,342 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,161 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshue has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshue, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,118 Americans ever recorded as Joshue. The median Joshue alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 854 people named Joshue (1 woman or girl, 853 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 107 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 88 |
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 Joshue born?
The states with the most babies named Joshue are California, Texas and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 208 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Joshue is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joshue is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Joshue with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,259,052 babies since 1880, Joshue is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 4,788 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Joshue
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 Joshue and names like it
- Compare Joshue and JoshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoshue peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joshue since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Joshue.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Joshue alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.