Josuha
Josuha was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 281 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josuha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josuha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,525, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1985, the peak
Josuha peaked in 1985, when 23 boys were given it, #2,326 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,525 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,968 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,773 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,638 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,267 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,739 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,300 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,664 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,733 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,377 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 9 | #5,582 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,561 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,433 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,738 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,996 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,326 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,399 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,454 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,396 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,128 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,730 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,838 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,721 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,480 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,662 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,554 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,596 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Josuha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josuha has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josuha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josuha, and how old are they?
An estimated 265 Americans named Josuha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Josuha (3 women and girls, 326 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 Josuha
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.