boys:
2.3k births since 1970
#2644 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1970
#5525 (29th percentile)
The name Yehoshua is the #5,525 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,277 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 28.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,644 (42.3% percentile) for all time with 2,277 births since 1970.
Yehoshua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for boys in 1970).
For boys, Yehoshua reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #827) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 49 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Yehoshua ranks #843 for boys (7.5% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 80.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yehoshua".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yehoshua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.1% confident that Yehoshua is pronounced as yeh-hoh-SHUE-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yeh-HOH-shue-uh, at 33.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Y EH0 HH OW0 SH UW1 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.
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