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Yoshua: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,236 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yoshua in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,236 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yoshua: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,236 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 37 (2025).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Yoshua, making it the 3,236th most common boys’ name of the year, up 453 places from #3,689 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 31 boys named Yoshua in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,236, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 37. For comparison, it was #5,736 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yoshua in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 8 babies. In all, 603 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 186 babies named Yoshua.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 242 US boys were named Yoshua; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,236 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,689 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,875 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,688 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,967 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,948 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,333 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,105 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,936 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,736 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,246 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,651 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,679 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,197 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,236 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,323 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,917 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,367 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,450 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,211 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,598 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,246 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,436 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,436 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,575 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,577 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,542 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,790 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,181 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,117 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,444 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,685 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,227 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,630 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,219 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,966 |
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).