boys:
3.1k births since 1975
#2263 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1975
#4916 (36th percentile)
The name Josias is the #4,916 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,054 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 36.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,263 (50.6% percentile) for all time with 3,054 births since 1975.
Josias first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975). Birth data for Josias is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Josias reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 21.4% percentile (ranked #708) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 108 births per million (ranked 21.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Josias is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #725 (20.4% percentile) with 104 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josias".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Josias. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Josias is pronounced as joh-SAI-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-ZAI-uhs, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW0 S AY1 AH0 S) 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.
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