Meaning not yet researched.
Jeshua: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,051 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,051 in 2005; #2,585 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeshua in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,585 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,051.
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Jeshua: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,051 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 165 (2007).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Jeshua, making it the 2,585th most common boys’ name of the year, down 128 places from #2,457 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 56 boys named Jeshua in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,051, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 165, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,245 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeshua in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 12 babies. In all, 2,628 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,031 babies named Jeshua.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 479 US boys were named Jeshua; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jeshua ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,823 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jeshuah and Jehoshua are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jeshuah (36), Jehoshua (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jeshua in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,823 | #1,588 |
| California | 7 | #2,084 | #1,288 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,585 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,457 |
| 2023 | — | — | 49 | #2,674 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,376 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,064 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,050 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,225 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,489 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,203 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,947 |
| 2015 | — | — | 60 | #2,245 |
| 2014 | — | — | 93 | #1,662 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,774 |
| 2012 | — | — | 91 | #1,682 |
| 2011 | — | — | 121 | #1,381 |
| 2010 | — | — | 118 | #1,410 |
| 2009 | — | — | 137 | #1,285 |
| 2008 | — | — | 141 | #1,236 |
| 2007 | — | — | 165 | #1,109 |
| 2006 | — | — | 144 | #1,175 |
| 2005 | — | — | 158 | #1,051 |
| 2004 | — | — | 150 | #1,067 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,236 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,576 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,473 | 24 | #3,561 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,402 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,693 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,145 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,711 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,565 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,378 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,371 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,541 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,058 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,573 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,386 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,508 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,476 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,510 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,464 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,294 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,752 |
| 1983 | — | — | 21 | #2,372 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,034 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,828 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,721 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,836 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,856 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,101 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,595 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,533 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,223 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,933 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).