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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Joshua

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#66

down −9 places

2025 births

4,773

down −495 births

All-time births

1,248,929

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1989
44,100 births
Best rank
#3
in 2002
First recorded
1880
#212 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 198944,100#4Peak
  2. 199043,237#4
  3. 198842,653#4
  4. 198542,194#4
  5. 199141,226#4

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3 in 2002 · peak births 44,100 in 1989

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

1,248,929 boys · 4,953 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Joshua has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.