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Yosiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,475 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 Yosiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,475 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yosiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,475 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 55 (2025).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Yosiah, making it the 2,475th most common boys’ name of the year, up 396 places from #2,871 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 45 boys named Yosiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,475, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #6,313 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yosiah in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 9 babies. In all, 428 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 251 babies named Yosiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 321 US boys were named Yosiah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yosiah ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,821 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,821 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,905 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,475 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,871 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,609 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,214 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,734 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,492 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,110 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #6,028 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,670 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,783 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,313 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,298 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,974 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,845 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,742 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,664 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,842 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,887 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,976 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,326 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,129 |
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).