girls:
185 births since 1975
#5531 (3rd percentile)
boys:
55.5k births since 1924
#462 (90th percentile)
overall:
55.7k births since 1924
#1005 (87th percentile)
The name Josue is the #1,005 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,692 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #462 (89.9% percentile) for all time with 55,507 births since 1924. For girls, it ranks #5,531 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 185 births since 1975.
Josue first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Josue is available in 91 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (91 years for boys and 25 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 Josue has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Josue reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 80.0% percentile (ranked #182) with 994 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,026 births per million (ranked 79.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Josue ranks #282 for boys (69.1% percentile) with 613 births per million, which is 59.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Josue reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #814) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josue".
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Our model has identified 23 different pronunciations for the name Josue. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 11.5% confident that Josue is pronounced as HOHZ-WAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hohz-WAY, at 9.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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