Jossue
Jossue was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,902 among boys’ names; 687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jossue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jossue?
#12,902 among boys’ names, 2025
Jossue fell from #8,349 in 2015 to #12,902 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
30 babies in 2006, the peak
Jossue peaked in 2006, when 30 boys were given it, #3,476 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,902 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,361 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,299 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,339 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,000 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,417 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,519 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,307 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,858 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,349 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,184 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,797 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,896 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,757 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,099 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,781 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,718 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,476 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,767 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,683 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,779 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,220 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,178 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,577 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,223 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,968 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,105 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,915 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,485 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,656 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,087 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,628 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,051 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,687 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,374 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,988 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,195 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,292 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,195 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,376 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,311 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,733 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jossue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jossue has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jossue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jossue, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Jossue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 600 people named Jossue (4 women and girls, 596 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 642 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 Jossue born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 205 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Jossue is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jossue is most over-represented in California: since 1981 it was given 2.2 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 Jossue 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 Jossue?
Jossue is a less common spelling of Josue: SSA has recorded 687 Jossue and 57,874 Josue since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 656,332 babies since 1880, Jossue is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 4,709 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Jossue
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jamarcus | 5,638 | |
| Montavious | 1,002 | |
| Dallin | 5,197 | |
| Martavious | 1,328 | |
| Paden | 1,981 | |
| Jarek | 1,627 |
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 Jossue and names like it
- Compare Jossue and JosueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJossue peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jossue since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jossue.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jossue alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.