Yeshua
Yeshua was given to 225 boys in 2025, #1,007 among boys’ names; 2,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Yeshua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yeshua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yeshua?
#1,007 among boys’ names, 2025
Yeshua rose from #1,451 in 2015 to #1,007 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.13 per 1,000.
229 babies in 2024, the peak
Yeshua peaked in 2024, when 229 boys were given it, #985 among boys’ names. The 225 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | #1,007 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 229 | #985 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,188 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,651 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 96 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,527 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,605 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,286 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,251 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,250 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,274 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,291 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 97 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,611 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 76 | #1,907 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 74 | #1,927 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,035 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,833 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,371 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,606 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,899 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,510 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,752 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,636 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,163 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,486 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yeshua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yeshua has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yeshua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yeshua, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,703 Americans ever recorded as Yeshua. The median Yeshua alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,437 people named Yeshua (32 women and girls, 1,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,779 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,830 |
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 Yeshua born?
The states with the most babies named Yeshua are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 42 | #666 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 32 | #842 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 19 | #807 | 1.4× |
| New York | 19 | #765 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #759 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,020 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,023 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,091 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 6 | #922 | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #783 | 0.1× |
Where Yeshua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yeshua is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 1.4 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 Yeshua 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,441 babies since 1880, Yeshua is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 225 of their 433 babies (52%), 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 Yeshua
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 Yeshua and names like it
- Compare Yeshua and YehoshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYeshua peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yeshua since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yeshua.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yeshua alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.