Yehoshua
#1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 95 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,442since 1970
Yehoshua over time
Rank among boys' names. Yehoshua 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,753 | 92 |
| 2024 | #2,098 | 71 |
| 2023 | #2,047 | 73 |
| 2022 | #2,022 | 75 |
| 2021 | #1,740 | 93 |
| 2020 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | #1,678 | 95 |
| 2018 | #2,046 | 70 |
| 2017 | #1,809 | 83 |
| 2016 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #1,955 | 74 |
| 2014 | #2,017 | 70 |
| 2013 | #1,794 | 80 |
| 2012 | #2,036 | 68 |
| 2011 | #1,795 | 80 |
| 2010 | #1,752 | 86 |
| 2009 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #1,874 | 77 |
| 2007 | #2,051 | 67 |
| 2006 | #2,102 | 62 |
| 2005 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #2,102 | 56 |
| 2003 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #2,027 | 52 |
| 2000 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #2,680 | 17 |
| 1980 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yehoshua! It came in at #3,836, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1975, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Yehoshua is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#727 · 1 in 10,377
Best ever in a state: #212 in New Jersey, 2025.
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| New York | #727 | 13 | 1 in 10,377 |
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See more about Yehoshua
- 345 spots since 2024 (#2,098 → #1,753)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #1,753)
- 202 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #1,753)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2019 at #1,678 (95 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 were named Yehoshua (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,678 in 2019, was only 1 in 18,886 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.9% of all boys named Yehoshua (778) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 88 | #2,669 (1979) | #3,786 |
| 1980s | 190 | #2,357 (1985) | #2,694 |
| 1990s | 333 | #1,879 (1999) | #2,405 |
| 2000s | 571 | #1,874 (2008) | #2,118 |
| 2010s | 778 | #1,678 (2019) | #1,887 |
| 2020s | 482 | #1,740 (2021) | #1,926 |
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.
Yehoshua in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
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2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 76,959 of them was named Yehoshua, which outranked 73.3% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,416Unique27
- #2,416Zacheriah27
- #2,416Zakery27
- #2,469Yehoshua26
- #2,469Abdiel26
- #2,469Adolph26
- #2,469Akash26
- #2,545Adriano25
- #2,545Anh25
- #2,545Barret25
Tied with 75 names at #2,469; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.