Josyah
Josyah was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,987 among boys’ names; 482 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josyah?
#6,987 among boys’ names, 2025
Josyah fell from #3,930 in 2015 to #6,987 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 7.0 per million.
40 babies in 2020, the peak
Josyah peaked in 2020, when 40 boys were given it, #2,953 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,987 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,022 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,062 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,309 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,437 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,953 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,756 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,410 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,412 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,253 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,930 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,768 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,807 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,459 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,159 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,757 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,433 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,243 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,894 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,275 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,407 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,507 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Josyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josyah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 478 Americans named Josyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Josyah (5 women and girls, 274 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 372 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Josyah?
Josyah is a less common spelling of Josiah: SSA has recorded 482 Josyah and 149,420 Josiah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 153,002 babies since 1880, Josyah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,614 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Josyah
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 Josyah and names like it
- Compare Josyah and JosiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJosyah peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Josyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Josyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.