Josiah
Josiah is ranked 53rd among boys in 2024 (5,457 births). Its best rank was 45th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #53same as 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,4570.32% of boys
- Peak year
- 20177,073 births
- Best rank
- #45in 2019
- Since 1880
- 143,338people given the name
The story in the numbers
143,338 boys have been named Josiah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 7,073 births — 0.38% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 64 → 53).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 44%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Josiah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 193 | |
| 1890s | 108 | |
| 1900s | 77 | |
| 1910s | 308 | |
| 1920s | 278 | |
| 1930s | 206 | |
| 1940s | 165 | |
| 1950s | 195 | |
| 1960s | 173 | |
| 1970s | 945 | |
| 1980s | 4,406 | |
| 1990s | 10,914 | |
| 2000s | 33,255 | |
| 2010s | 63,095 | |
| 2020s | 29,020 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Josiah was the 51st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Josiah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Viktorpeak 2018
- Arjunpeak 2014
- Aamirpeak 2015
- Braxtonpeak 2014
- Zephaniahpeak 2019
- Cannonpeak 2021
- Wyattpeak 2017
- Oskarpeak 2016
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.