boys:
2.2k births since 1976
#2662 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1976
#5549 (28th percentile)
The name Yeshua is the #5,549 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,246 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 28.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,662 (41.9% percentile) for all time with 2,246 births since 1976.
Yeshua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for boys in 1976). Birth data for Yeshua is available in 34 out of the 48 years between 1976 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, Yeshua reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 17.9% percentile (ranked #748) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 92 births per million (ranked 17.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yeshua is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #748 (17.9% percentile) with 92 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yeshua".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yeshua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Yeshua is pronounced as YEH-shue-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yeh-SHUE-uh, at 26.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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