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Josh
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑʃ/
Rank in 2024
#1,733
Born in 2024
95
Peak year
1979 · #340
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 95 boys were named Josh, about 1 in every 18,056.
- It peaked in 1979 with 531 babies, ranked #340.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 17,193 boys have been named Josh since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Josh per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 924 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 615 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,344 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,111 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,637 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,729 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,365 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A diminutive of the male given name Joshua.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɑʃ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Josh, CC BY-SA 4.0.