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Joshuah

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Joshuah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 973rd, in 1985.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of boys
Peak year
1989106 births
Best rank
#973in 1985
Since 1969
2,862people given the name
Babies named Joshuah, by year of birthboys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

2,862 boys have been named Joshuah in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 106 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 27%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Joshuah
1960s5
1970s230
1980s754
1990s782
2000s687
2010s353
2020s51

In 1989, its biggest year

Joshuah was the 995th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.

Names that rose and fell with Joshuah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.