Jozyah
Jozyah was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,293 among boys’ names; 54 Americans have been recorded with it since 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jozyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jozyah?
#11,293 among boys’ names, 2025
Jozyah rose from #13,002 in 2015 to #11,293 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
9 babies in 2017, the peak
Jozyah peaked in 2017, when 9 boys were given it, #8,480 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,293 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,100 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,480 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,168 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,002 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,389 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,050 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,520 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,186 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jozyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jozyah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jozyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jozyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 54 Americans named Jozyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Jozyah is a less common spelling of Joziah: SSA has recorded 54 Jozyah and 5,369 Joziah since 1880.
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 Jozyah
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.