Josiah

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josiah".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
435
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
2019
First Recorded
1981
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#775
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
137,768
Peak Births
7,067
Peak Year
2019
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
95.2%
Current Percentile
94.5%
Peak Rank
#45
Current Rank
#51
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Josiah

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Josiah. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.0% confident that Josiah is pronounced as joh-ZAI-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-SAI-uh, at 39.0% confidence.

JOH-ZAI-uh (3 syllables)
4.9% confidence
JH OW1 Z AY1 AH0
JOH-zai-uh (3 syllables)
4.9% confidence
JH OW1 Z AY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Josiah. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Josiah, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JOH-SAI-uh (3 syllables)
5 names 1k births
JH OW1 S AY1 AH0
joh-ZAY-uh (3 syllables)
5 names 471 births
JH OW0 Z EY1 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.