Yehoshua — #2135 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yehoshua

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,348 babies named Yehoshua between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yehoshua currently holds the #2135 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 95 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yehoshua performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 778 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yehoshua shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,050 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Yehoshua in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yehoshua in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,348 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.