Joshuah

Where Joshuah comes from

Joshuah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1950
    Joshuah Ignathios Kizhakkeveettil born
  2. 1969
    First appearance
    #4,404 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1985
    Peak, #970
    88 babies named Joshuah — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1997
    Joshuah Bledsoe born
    American football safety
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,804.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Joshuah Ignathios Kizhakkeveettil · born 1950
  • Joshuah Bledsoe · American football safety, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.