Josiah
The 2025 national count puts Josiah at #54, neither climbing nor fading. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 148,958 bearers and counting.
What Josiah carries
Josiah · Hebrew
“yielded to the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Josiah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Josiah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Josiah since 1880
Josiah peaked in 2017 at #51; #54 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Josiah is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Josiah runs strongest in Delaware at 0.85% in 2025, then Rhode Island and Nevada.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Josiah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaiah
#57 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaac
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Naomi
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Josiah
Where does Josiah rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Josiah at #54, neither climbing nor fading. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Josiah mean?
“yielded to the Lord” is the meaning our source sets down, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Josiah?
The recipe puts Jose first, then Jude, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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