Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Joshuan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joshuan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joshuan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joshuan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joshuan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joshuan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joshuan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joshuan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

Explore other names

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  9. Joshuaray
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