Joshwa
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Joshwa by the numbers
Joshwa was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 25 babies in 2004, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Joshwa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Joshwa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Joshuathe Lord is salvation8,251 in the US (2017)
- Jeshuagod is salvation; a variant of Joshua61 in the US (2017)
- Joshuangod is salvation; a form of joshua14 in the US (2017)
- JoshuahGod is salvation; variant spelling of Joshua13 in the US (2017)
- Jashuagod is salvation; a spelling variant of Joshua11 in the US (2017)
- JoshueGod is salvation; variant spelling of Joshua7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Joshwa
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