Yehoshua
Yehoshua was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,769 among boys’ names; 2,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Yehoshua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yehoshua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yehoshua?
#1,769 among boys’ names, 2025
Yehoshua rose from #1,981 in 2015 to #1,769 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 38.6 to 53.9 per million.
95 babies in 2019, the peak
Yehoshua peaked in 2019, when 95 boys were given it, #1,689 among boys’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,769 | 53.9 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,118 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,060 | 42.7 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,037 | 43.0 |
| 2021 | 93 | #1,747 | 53.2 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,909 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 95 | #1,689 | 52.9 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,063 | 38.5 |
| 2017 | 83 | #1,818 | 44.8 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,010 | 37.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,981 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,042 | 36.4 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,809 | 42.3 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,046 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,808 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 86 | #1,758 | 44.8 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,165 | 31.8 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,897 | 37.7 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,069 | 32.3 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,124 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,292 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,126 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,307 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,041 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,045 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,371 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,898 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,444 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,672 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,107 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,134 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,611 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,632 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,591 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,599 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,858 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,536 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,954 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,716 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,596 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,425 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,821 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,491 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,685 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,776 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,962 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,775 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,547 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,571 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,720 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,302 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,181 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,688 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,432 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,898 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,222 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yehoshua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yehoshua has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yehoshua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yehoshua, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,442 Americans ever recorded as Yehoshua. The median Yehoshua alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,798 people named Yehoshua (0 women and girls, 1,798 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,946 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 909 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Yehoshua born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 45 | #214 | 10.0× |
| New York | 28 | #571 | 7.0× |
Where Yehoshua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yehoshua is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 10.0 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 Yehoshua 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 6,091 babies since 1880, Yehoshua is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 365 babies (25%), again the second 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 Yehoshua
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 Yehoshua and names like it
- Compare Yehoshua and YeshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYehoshua peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yehoshua since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Yehoshua.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yehoshua alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.