Josue

Where Josue comes from

Josue 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1864
    Josue Dupon born
    Belgian sculptor
  2. 1924
    First appearance
    #3,867 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1987
    Josue Souza Santos born
    Brazilian association football player
  4. 2007
    Peak, #181
    2,272 babies named Josue — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2021
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #311.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Josue Souza Santos · Brazilian association football player, born 1987
  • Josue Dupon · Belgian sculptor, 1864–1935
  • Josue Deprez · judoka, born 1981
  • Josue Dos Santos · Brazilian footballer, born 1979
  • Josue Monge · Costa Rican association football player, born 1999

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.