Josian
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 372since 1984
Josian over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Josian has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
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| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
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| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
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| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
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First appearance
1984
The first year at least five boys were named Josian! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Josian is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Josian in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,467 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,910)
- 3,675 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #8,910)
- 2,234 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2014 at #4,538 (21 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 90,030
- Highest: 1 in 90,030 boys born in 2023 were named Josian (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,538 in 2014, was only 1 in 91,470 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 39.0% of all boys named Josian (145) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 20 | #6,315 (1984) | #7,053 |
| 1990s | 22 | #6,670 (1992) | #7,030 |
| 2000s | 95 | #5,781 (2006) | #7,267 |
| 2010s | 145 | #4,538 (2014) | #6,152 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,075 (2023) | #6,105 |
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.
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