girls:
5 births since 2001
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
144 births since 1994
#4442 (3rd percentile)
overall:
149 births since 1994
#7590 (2nd percentile)
The name Josia is the #7,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 149 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,442 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 144 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2001.
Josia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Josia is available in 21 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (21 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Josia has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Josia reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #899) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Josia ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 45.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Josia reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #898) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Josia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Josia is pronounced as joh-SAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-see-uh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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