Meaning not yet researched.
Joshuah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #973 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #973 in 1985; #7,930 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joshuah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,930 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #973.
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Joshuah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #973 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 106 (1989).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Joshuah, making it the 7,930th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,435 places from #10,365 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 boys named Joshuah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #973, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 1989. For comparison, it was #3,825 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joshuah in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 2,873 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 782 babies named Joshuah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 124 US boys were named Joshuah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joshua (1,253,882 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Joshuah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #7,930 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,365 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,488 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,026 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,662 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,807 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,247 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,415 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,482 |
| 2016 | — | — | 19 | #5,035 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,825 |
| 2014 | — | — | 34 | #3,265 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,824 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,467 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,044 |
| 2010 | — | — | 70 | #1,980 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,022 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,960 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,355 |
| 2006 | — | — | 88 | #1,633 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,763 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,296 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,067 |
| 2002 | — | — | 74 | #1,626 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,669 |
| 2000 | — | — | 79 | #1,530 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,618 |
| 1998 | — | — | 79 | #1,439 |
| 1997 | — | — | 78 | #1,407 |
| 1996 | — | — | 88 | #1,259 |
| 1995 | — | — | 85 | #1,271 |
| 1994 | — | — | 82 | #1,291 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,369 |
| 1992 | — | — | 69 | #1,367 |
| 1991 | — | — | 71 | #1,342 |
| 1990 | — | — | 92 | #1,124 |
| 1989 | — | — | 106 | #995 |
| 1988 | — | — | 81 | #1,111 |
| 1987 | — | — | 74 | #1,118 |
| 1986 | — | — | 68 | #1,147 |
| 1985 | — | — | 88 | #973 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,307 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,086 |
| 1982 | — | — | 66 | #1,127 |
| 1981 | — | — | 74 | #1,064 |
| 1980 | — | — | 78 | #1,029 |
| 1979 | — | — | 64 | #1,123 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,550 |
| 1977 | — | — | 44 | #1,383 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,759 |
| 1975 | — | — | 23 | #2,033 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,860 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,322 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,709 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,659 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,702 |
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).