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Joshua
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɒʃ(j)ʊə/
Rank in 2024
#57
Born in 2024
5,244
Peak year
1989 · #4
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,643)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,244 boys were named Joshua, about 1 in every 327.
- It peaked in 1989 with 44,099 babies, ranked #4.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,244,059 boys have been named Joshua since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Joshua per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 6.6Gen X1965–80
- 19.9Millennials1981–96
- 11.4Gen Z1997–12
- 4.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,084 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 1,729 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,553 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 179,941 babies, 6.61 per 1,000. Millennials: 606,013 babies, 19.91 per 1,000. Gen Z: 357,620 babies, 11.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 91,331 babies, 4.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshúa'), perhaps from הוֹשֵׁעַ (Hoshéa') with addition of יהוה (YHWH, “Yahweh”), thus meaning "Yahweh is salvation". See הוֹשִׁיעַ (hoshía', “to save”). By cognate a direct equivalent to Jesus via Latin Iēsūs and Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs) from Aramaic יֵשׁוּע (Yēšū́ʿ), akin to Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshúa'), a variant of Yehoshúa'. The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament consistently render the two Hebrew names Yehoshúa' (whence Joshua) and Yeshúa' (whence Jeshua) into Koine Greek as Iēsoûs (whence Jesus).
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A surname, transferred from the given name
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɒʃ(j)ʊə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Joshua, CC BY-SA 4.0.