Yoshua
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 19 babies a year in the US.
Yoshua by the numbers
Yoshua was given to 19 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 27 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Yoshua
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 Yoshua. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Yeshuagod is salvation141 in the US (2017)
- Yashuagod is salvation; a variant of Joshua or Yeshua14 in the US (2017)
- Yehoshuagod is salvation; the Lord saves80 in the US (2017)
- Yushajoshua or god is salvation36 in England and Wales (2025)
- Yoshigood or righteous; typically a masculine given name14 in the US (2017)
- Yashagod is my salvation; form of jacob6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Yoshua
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