Josue
Josue was given to 1,026 boys in 2025, #330 among boys’ names; 57,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 56,400 Americans named Josue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josue?
#330 among boys’ names, 2025
Josue fell from #273 in 2015 to #330 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.70 to 0.60 per 1,000.
2,272 babies in 2007, the peak
Josue peaked in 2007, when 2,272 boys were given it, #181 among boys’ names. The 1,026 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,026 | #330 | 0.60 |
| 2024 | 1,144 | #294 | 0.66 |
| 2023 | 1,125 | #295 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | 1,173 | #290 | 0.67 |
| 2021 | 1,079 | #311 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,231 | #275 | 0.71 |
| 2019 | 1,402 | #259 | 0.78 |
| 2018 | 1,664 | #226 | 0.92 |
| 2017 | 1,538 | #240 | 0.83 |
| 2016 | 1,353 | #271 | 0.71 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,348 | #273 | 0.70 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | #268 | 0.71 |
| 2013 | 1,454 | #251 | 0.77 |
| 2012 | 1,514 | #237 | 0.80 |
| 2011 | 1,639 | #214 | 0.86 |
| 2010 | 1,996 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 1,975 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 2,169 | #183 | 1.1 |
| 2007 | 2,272 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 2,051 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,951 | #197 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,746 | #208 | 0.88 |
| 2003 | 1,674 | #213 | 0.85 |
| 2002 | 1,566 | #220 | 0.81 |
| 2001 | 1,565 | #220 | 0.81 |
| 2000 | 1,353 | #247 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 1,310 | #245 | 0.68 |
| 1998 | 1,175 | #256 | 0.61 |
| 1997 | 1,154 | #252 | 0.61 |
| 1996 | 1,133 | #254 | 0.60 |
| 1995 | 1,088 | #259 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 1,071 | #264 | 0.55 |
| 1993 | 987 | #285 | 0.50 |
| 1992 | 991 | #286 | 0.50 |
| 1991 | 967 | #275 | 0.48 |
| 1990 | 863 | #292 | 0.42 |
| 1989 | 695 | #335 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 622 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1987 | 547 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 484 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 419 | #416 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 396 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 351 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 323 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 345 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 328 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 251 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 190 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 196 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 175 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 159 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 153 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 117 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 80 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 67 | #992 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,078 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,239 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,141 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,173 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,306 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #1,361 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,290 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,833 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 34 | #1,376 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,839 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,642 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,618 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,862 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,663 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,616 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,339 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,160 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,791 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,865 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,567 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Josue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josue has been given almost only to boys: 185 girls in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Josue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josue, and how old are they?
56,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 57,874 Americans ever recorded as Josue. The median Josue alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 60,561 people named Josue (239 women and girls, 60,322 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50,402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 233 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,800 |
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 Josue born?
The states with the most babies named Josue are Texas, California and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 197 | #197 | 2.2× |
| California | 178 | #210 | 2.0× |
| New York | 61 | #304 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 60 | #325 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #300 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 37 | #330 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 31 | #286 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 31 | #284 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 29 | #370 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 28 | #212 | 1.0× |
Where Josue is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Josue is most over-represented in Texas: since 1924 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 Josue 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 656,905 babies since 1880, Josue is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,026 of their 4,709 babies (22%), 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 Josue
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 Josue and names like it
- Compare Josue and JoseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosue peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josue since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Josue.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josue alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.