Yahshua

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 18 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
18
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Yahshua by the numbers

Yahshua was given to 18 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 24 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Yahshua

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 Yahshua. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Yashuagod is salvation; a variant of Joshua or Yeshua14 in the US (2017)
  • Yeshuagod is salvation141 in the US (2017)
  • Yehoshuagod is salvation; the Lord saves80 in the US (2017)
  • Yashagod is my salvation; form of jacob6 in the US (2017)
  • Yoshua19 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Yahshua

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