Yashua
Yashua was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,881 among boys’ names; 344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yashua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yashua?
#8,881 among boys’ names, 2025
Yashua rose from #9,521 in 2015 to #8,881 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.3 per million.
19 babies in 2007, the peak
Yashua peaked in 2007, when 19 boys were given it, #4,983 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,881 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,735 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,719 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,798 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,750 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,696 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,614 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,595 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,315 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,579 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,521 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,662 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,520 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,835 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,739 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,680 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,414 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,992 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,983 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,442 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,810 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,996 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,223 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,363 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,207 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,383 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,156 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,274 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,084 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,493 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,771 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,852 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,110 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yashua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yashua has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yashua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yashua, and how old are they?
An estimated 339 Americans named Yashua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Yashua (21 women and girls, 260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,143 babies since 1880, Yashua is the third most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 299 babies (3.0%), the fifth 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 Yashua
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 Yashua and names like it
- Compare Yashua and YeshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYashua peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Yashua.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yashua alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.