Joshua

29 variations

girls:

5k births since 1968

#1768 (60th percentile)

boys:

1.2M births since 1880

#25 (99th percentile)

overall:

1.3M births since 1880

#36 (99th percentile)

Popularity of Joshua's 29 Variations

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the 29 variations of "Joshua". These 29 different ways to spell Joshua have been grouped together based on pronunciation by a model that updates daily in response to your feedback.

1880 2023 18802023

This table provides detailed name popularity stats for 29 spelling variations of Joshua based on Social Security card applications in the United States. Alternate spellings are only included if they were used at least 5 times in a single year.

This table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.

1.2M
44.1k
2005
1880
99.8%
93.7%
#3
#58
4,944
307
1986
1968
35.3%
0.0%
#527
#947
2,854
106
1989
1969
13.9%
0.0%
#608
#911
1,697
73
1987
1971
9.6%
0.7%
#634
#905
768
50
1987
1971
6.3%
#639
432
32
1985
1975
3.9%
#641
426
27
1982
1971
3.2%
#643
393
22
1989
1976
2.8%
#655
281
23
1985
1974
2.6%
#653
266
22
1989
1974
2.8%
#653
260
29
1985
1975
3.5%
#655
208
16
1981
1974
1.6%
#653
172
14
1989
1981
1.1%
#681
130
14
2008
1995
1.0%
#792
97
12
1987
1973
1.0%
#643
93
10
1999
1983
0.6%
#687
90
12
1989
1979
1.5%
#681
36
7
1978
1976
0.3%
#656
33
6
1989
1981
0.7%
#682
28
9
1976
1976
0.5%
#756
18
7
1996
1996
0.2%
#857
16
6
1985
1980
0.1%
#681
11
6
2002
1991
0.1%
#760
10
5
2017
2017
0.0%
0.0%
#911
#911
10
5
1980
1980
0.0%
#681
10
5
1979
1979
0.0%
#688
10
5
1987
1987
0.0%
#713
6
6
2000
2000
0.1%
#813
6
6
1985
1985
0.1%
#694
5
5
1986
1986
0.0%
#705
5
5
1987
1987
0.0%
#713

The popularity percentiles and rank data in the table above are computed for each spelling variation individually, compared against all other individual spellings. This is different from the header on this page and our ranking pages, which compare popularity of the grouped spellings as a whole.

Similar Names

All Spelling Variations of Joshua

The 29 different ways to spell Joshua, sorted by popularity: