Joziah
Joziah was given to 221 boys in 2025, #1,015 among boys’ names; 5,369 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,320 Americans named Joziah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joziah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joziah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joziah is “a male given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling variant of Josiah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joziah?
#1,015 among boys’ names, 2025
Joziah fell from #756 in 2015 to #1,015 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.17 to 0.13 per 1,000.
365 babies in 2019, the peak
Joziah peaked in 2019, when 365 boys were given it, #693 among boys’ names. The 221 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 221 | #1,015 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 227 | #990 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 276 | #864 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 309 | #809 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 363 | #716 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 330 | #740 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 365 | #693 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 306 | #767 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 304 | #772 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 363 | #686 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 319 | #756 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 272 | #832 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 234 | #893 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 243 | #872 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 205 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 196 | #1,002 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 193 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 174 | #1,077 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,393 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,252 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,264 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,697 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,559 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,449 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,049 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,543 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joziah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joziah has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joziah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joziah, and how old are they?
5,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,369 Americans ever recorded as Joziah. The median Joziah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,584 people named Joziah (22 women and girls, 2,562 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,860 |
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 Joziah born?
The states with the most babies named Joziah are Texas, California and Florida, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 47 | #643 | 1.5× |
| California | 42 | #659 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 19 | #790 | 1.2× |
| New York | 11 | #1,081 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 10 | #832 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #744 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,366 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,100 | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #839 | 0.2× |
Where Joziah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joziah is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1995 it was given 1.7 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 Joziah 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,659 babies since 1880, Joziah is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 221 of their 227 babies (97%), again the 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 Joziah
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 Joziah and names like it
- Compare Joziah and JoziyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJoziah peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joziah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Joziah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Joziah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.