Josh

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Josh is a masculine given name. It is frequently a diminutive of the given name Joshua and historically a diminutive of Josiah but has been used independently as a given name. The diminutive has been in use since the 19th century. It may refer to:

From Wikipedia

Josh first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2002 with 657 babies (rank #84 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Josh

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Josh yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

8,634
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
657
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1996595#94
1997595#89
1998645#86
1999492#101
2000430#108
2001567#90
2002657#84
2003598#93
2004561#100
2005493#113
2006481#116
2007401#136
2008394#143
2009348#161
2010272#194
2011261#202
2012204#243
2013186#260
2014185#264
2015132#348
2016137#343