Meaning not yet researched.
Josue: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,026 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #181 in 2007; #330 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josue in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#330 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #181.
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Josue: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,026 boys in 2025. Peak: #181 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 2,272 (2007).
In 2025, 1,026 US boys were named Josue, making it the 330th most common boys’ name of the year, down 36 places from #294 in 2024. That is 118 fewer than the 1,144 boys named Josue in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #181, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,272. For comparison, it was #273 in 2015 and #2,151 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josue in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 57,874 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 18,364 babies named Josue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,735 US boys were named Josue; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,664. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Josue ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #197 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jossue, Josuha and Johsua are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jossue (687), Josuha (281), Johsua (266), Josu (6), Josuhe (5).
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 Josue 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 197 | #197 | #156 |
| California | 178 | #210 | #186 |
| Maryland | 28 | #212 | #228 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #219 | #256 |
| Kansas | 13 | #283 | #369 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #284 | #466 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #286 | #183 |
| Arizona | 27 | #290 | #272 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #300 | #242 |
| Massachusetts | 19 | #301 | #235 |
| New York | 61 | #304 | #282 |
| Florida | 60 | #325 | #235 |
| Georgia | 37 | #330 | #273 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #335 | #424 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #337 | #359 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #338 | #458 |
| Alabama | 16 | #348 | #399 |
| Virginia | 23 | #357 | #195 |
| Illinois | 29 | #370 | #366 |
| Colorado | 16 | #392 | #316 |
| Washington | 19 | #394 | #304 |
| Nevada | 7 | #416 | #287 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #437 | #487 |
| Utah | 9 | #496 | #463 |
| Oregon | 7 | #501 | #370 |
| Indiana | 14 | #502 | #598 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #508 | #398 |
| Iowa | 6 | #537 | #436 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #593 | #576 |
| Ohio | 16 | #608 | #755 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #619 | #449 |
| Missouri | 8 | #683 | #544 |
| Michigan | 7 | #948 | #615 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,026 | #330 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,144 | #294 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,125 | #295 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,173 | #290 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,079 | #311 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,231 | #275 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,402 | #259 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,664 | #226 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,538 | #240 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,353 | #271 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,348 | #273 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,368 | #268 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,454 | #251 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,514 | #237 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,707 | 1,639 | #214 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,996 | #184 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,384 | 1,975 | #193 |
| 2008 | — | — | 2,169 | #183 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,272 | #181 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,891 | 2,051 | #193 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,327 | 1,951 | #197 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,746 | #208 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,674 | #213 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,671 | 1,566 | #220 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,533 | 1,565 | #220 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,402 | 1,353 | #247 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,509 | 1,310 | #245 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,223 | 1,175 | #256 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,783 | 1,154 | #252 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,454 | 1,133 | #254 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,423 | 1,088 | #259 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,838 | 1,071 | #264 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,996 | 987 | #285 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,902 | 991 | #286 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,635 | 967 | #275 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,810 | 863 | #292 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,724 | 695 | #335 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,957 | 622 | #341 |
| 1987 | — | — | 547 | #357 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,072 | 484 | #379 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,851 | 419 | #416 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,678 | 396 | #417 |
| 1983 | — | — | 351 | #445 |
| 1982 | — | — | 323 | #471 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,114 | 345 | #445 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,075 | 328 | #466 |
| 1979 | — | — | 251 | #535 |
| 1978 | — | — | 190 | #606 |
| 1977 | — | — | 196 | #604 |
| 1976 | — | — | 175 | #620 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,427 | 159 | #652 |
| 1974 | — | — | 153 | #653 |
| 1973 | — | — | 117 | #744 |
| 1972 | — | — | 80 | #898 |
| 1971 | — | — | 67 | #992 |
| 1970 | — | — | 49 | #1,186 |
| 1969 | — | — | 52 | #1,078 |
| 1968 | — | — | 38 | #1,239 |
| 1967 | — | — | 43 | #1,141 |
| 1966 | — | — | 41 | #1,173 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,306 |
| 1964 | — | — | 34 | #1,362 |
| 1963 | — | — | 37 | #1,291 |
| 1962 | — | — | 20 | #1,834 |
| 1961 | — | — | 34 | #1,377 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,840 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,643 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,619 |
| 1957 | — | — | 19 | #1,863 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,664 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,868 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,846 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,617 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,975 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,566 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,151 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,902 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,697 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,340 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,161 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,792 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,830 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,705 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,289 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,561 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,337 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,353 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,451 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,938 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,866 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,855 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,115 |
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).