Joziah
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #16,869 · #1,015 for boys in 2025, 221 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 363 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,364since 1995
Joziah over time
Rank among boys' names. Joziah has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,015 | 221 | |
| 2024 | — | #988 | 227 | |
| 2023 | — | #863 | 276 | |
| 2022 | — | #808 | 309 | |
| 2021 | — | #716 | 363 | |
| 2020 | — | #739 | 330 | |
| 2019 | — | #693 | 365 | |
| 2018 | — | #765 | 306 | |
| 2017 | — | #771 | 304 | |
| 2016 | — | #685 | 363 | |
| 2015 | — | #755 | 319 | |
| 2014 | — | #829 | 272 | |
| 2013 | — | #889 | 234 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #868 | 243 |
| 2011 | — | #965 | 205 | |
| 2010 | — | #997 | 196 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,014 | 193 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,074 | 174 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,387 | 118 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,769 | 78 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,632 | 36 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,341 | 16 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Joziah! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Joziah
- 27 spots since 2024 (#988 → #1,015)
- 276 spots since 2020 (#739 → #1,015)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#755 → #1,015)
- Biggest jump: 97 spots in 2012 (#965 → #868)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 2024 (#863 → #988)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2016 at #685 (363 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2010–2024
- Highest: 1 in 4,820 boys born in 2021 were named Joziah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,729 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #685 in 2016, was only 1 in 5,228 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 52.3% of all boys named Joziah (2,807) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 43 | #4,341 (1999) | #7,069 |
| 2000s | 788 | #1,014 (2009) | #2,196 |
| 2010s | 2,807 | #685 (2016) | #822 |
| 2020s | 1,726 | #716 (2021) | #855 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Joziah in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 9,265 of them was named Joziah, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).