Yehoshua

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Joshua

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/aɪhɒʃuə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yehoshua is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 354as Joshua(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 1.2Kas יהושע
  • RORomania≈1 in 3.2Kas יהושע

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yehoshua itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

939,718 named Joshua, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 485K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

YehoshuaLatin(measured from records)
יהושעHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled יהושע in US United States, IL Israel, RO Romania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Joshua

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yehoshua counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Yehoshua is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—939,718as Joshua1 in 354938Kיהושע139
EC Ecuador—8,755as Joshua1 in 1.9K8.8K—1
IL Israel#107≈7,400 est.≈1 in 1.2K2.3Kיהושע71
RO Romania#290≈6,700 est.≈1 in 3.2K—יהושע4
CR Costa Rica—3,601as Joshua1 in 1.4K3.6K—2
GY Guyana—1,628as Joshua1 in 4611.6K——
NL Netherlands—111 in 1.6M5K—4
JM Jamaica—≈6 est.≈1 in 485K162—1

939,718 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling joshua. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yehoshua is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yehoshùa

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yehoshúa, Yëhöshüa, Yehôshûa, Yéhoshua, Yehoshuá

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Yehoshuà

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

185019001950Yehoshua Hankin, b. 1864Yehoshua Bertonov, b. 1881Yehoshua Rabinovitz, b. 1911Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, b. 1915Yehoshua Blau, b. 1919Yehoshua Glazer, b. 1927Abraham J. Twerski, b. 1930Yehoshua Saguy, b. 1933Yehoshua Kenaz, b. 1937Yehoshua Feigenbaum, b. 1947

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Yehoshua
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,133
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201995—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202193—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202592—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201086—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201783—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201380—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201180—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202078—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200877—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202275—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201574—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yehoshua mean, and where does it come from?
Joshua Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Yehoshua?
A machine transcription gives /aɪhɒʃuə/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
Is Yehoshua a male or female name?
Yehoshua is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Yehoshua?
In the etymology graph, Jesus, Joshua and Isa are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Yehoshua have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 940 thousand people named Joshua, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Yehoshua?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 11 people named Yehoshua, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Yehoshua compared with other names?
In Israel, Yehoshua is the 107th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Yehoshua?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yehoshua

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yehoshua” — the 107th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Yehoshua parses inside a full name →