girls:
435 births since 1981
#5281 (8th percentile)
boys:
137.8k births since 1880
#242 (95th percentile)
overall:
138.2k births since 1880
#538 (93rd percentile)
The name Josiah is the #538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 138,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #242 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 137,768 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,281 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 435 births since 1981.
Josiah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1981 for girls).
The name Josiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Josiah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 95.2% percentile (ranked #45) with 3,552 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3,571 births per million (ranked 94.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Josiah ranks #51 for boys (94.5% percentile) with 2,951 births per million, which is 82.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Josiah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #929) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josiah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Josiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Josiah is pronounced as joh-ZAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-SAI-uh, at 39.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW0 Z AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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