Hosea
Hosea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 60 births. Its best rank was 360th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 600.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192574 births
- Best rank
- #360in 1885
- Since 1880
- 5,414people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,414 boys have been named Hosea in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 74 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1920s alone account for 11%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hosea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 155 | |
| 1890s | 114 | |
| 1900s | 154 | |
| 1910s | 386 | |
| 1920s | 583 | |
| 1930s | 474 | |
| 1940s | 437 | |
| 1950s | 555 | |
| 1960s | 439 | |
| 1970s | 394 | |
| 1980s | 283 | |
| 1990s | 306 | |
| 2000s | 296 | |
| 2010s | 547 | |
| 2020s | 291 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Hosea was the 770th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Hosea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Henrypeak 2024
- Amospeak 1922
- Baxterpeak 2014
- Luciuspeak 2022
- Corneliuspeak 1974
- Benpeak 1918
- Luciouspeak 1926
- Charliepeak 1919
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.