Jeshua
Last seen for girls in 2001 at #15,352 · #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 158 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,623since 1973
Jeshua over time
Rank among boys' names. Jeshua has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,572 | 51 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,444 | 56 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,660 | 49 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,344 | 35 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,011 | 26 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,201 | 36 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,472 | 52 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,936 | 75 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,234 | 60 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,763 | 82 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,676 | 91 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,377 | 121 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,408 | 118 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,278 | 137 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,233 | 141 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,102 | 165 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,172 | 144 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,048 | 158 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,067 | 150 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,556 | 38 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | — | #2,379 | 40 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,665 | 32 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,680 | 29 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,535 | 30 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,347 | 33 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,509 | 29 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,999 | 22 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,437 | 24 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,972 | 15 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jeshua! It came in at #2,857, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1978, when fewer than 16 boys a year got the name.
Where Jeshua is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#674 · 1 in 6,002
- California#937 · 1 in 10,164
- Texas#1,169 · 1 in 12,758
- Illinois#1,214 · 1 in 11,638
- Georgia#1,224 · 1 in 11,178
Best ever in a state: #489 in Oregon, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #674 | 5 | 1 in 6,002 |
| California | #937 | 23 | 1 in 10,164 |
| Texas | #1,169 | 14 | 1 in 12,758 |
| Illinois | #1,214 | 6 | 1 in 11,638 |
| Georgia | #1,224 | 5 | 1 in 11,178 |
| New York | #1,343 | 8 | 1 in 13,279 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 6 | 1 in 15,440 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jeshua
- 128 spots since 2024 (#2,444 → #2,572)
- 453 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #2,572)
- 338 spots since 2015 (#2,234 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2005 at #1,048 (158 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,578 boys born in 2007 were named Jeshua (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,048 in 2005, was only 1 in 12,641 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.1% of all boys named Jeshua (1,026) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 87 | #2,777 (1979) | #3,070 |
| 1980s | 188 | #2,341 (1983) | #2,743 |
| 1990s | 278 | #2,346 (1995) | #2,703 |
| 2000s | 1,026 | #1,048 (2005) | #1,853 |
| 2010s | 789 | #1,377 (2011) | #1,991 |
| 2020s | 255 | #2,444 (2024) | #3,009 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jeshua in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 16,260 of them was named Jeshua, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,399Omarion119
- #1,399Rickey119
- #1,399Talen119
- #1,408Jeshua118
- #1,408Adin118
- #1,408Caeden118
- #1,408Lester118
- #1,415Brad117
- #1,415Cy117
- #1,415Ever117
Tied with 6 names at #1,408; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.