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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Joziah, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 7,806 of them was named Joziah, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 7 names at #868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.