Meaning not yet researched.
Joziah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 221 in 2025. Its best rank was #686 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #686 in 2016; #1,015 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joziah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,015 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #686.
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Joziah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 221 boys in 2025. Peak: #686 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 365 (2019).
In 2025, 221 US boys were named Joziah, making it the 1,015th most common boys’ name of the year, down 25 places from #990 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 227 boys named Joziah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #686, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 365, in 2019. For comparison, it was #756 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joziah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 5,369 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,812 babies named Joziah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,064 US boys were named Joziah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 365. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,729 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joziah ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #643 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Josiah (149,420 babies since 1880) and Jozie (1,343 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Joziah 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 47 | #643 | #544 |
| California | 42 | #659 | #643 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #744 | #356 |
| Florida | 19 | #790 | #554 |
| Illinois | 10 | #832 | #865 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #839 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,081 | #684 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,100 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,366 | #794 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 221 | #1,015 |
| 2024 | — | — | 227 | #990 |
| 2023 | — | — | 276 | #864 |
| 2022 | — | — | 309 | #809 |
| 2021 | — | — | 363 | #716 |
| 2020 | — | — | 330 | #740 |
| 2019 | — | — | 365 | #693 |
| 2018 | — | — | 306 | #767 |
| 2017 | — | — | 304 | #772 |
| 2016 | — | — | 363 | #686 |
| 2015 | — | — | 319 | #756 |
| 2014 | — | — | 272 | #832 |
| 2013 | — | — | 234 | #893 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,110 | 243 | #872 |
| 2011 | — | — | 205 | #965 |
| 2010 | — | — | 196 | #1,002 |
| 2009 | — | — | 193 | #1,018 |
| 2008 | — | — | 174 | #1,077 |
| 2007 | — | — | 118 | #1,393 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,783 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,256 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,268 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,701 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,661 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,564 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,476 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,454 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,056 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,685 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,749 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,550 |
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).