Josha

given name · Latin script

Meaning: satisfaction

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Josha 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 343K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 74K
  • GYGuyana1 in 375K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

971 people, 2020

Sources
153 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

satisfaction

Sources 1

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

Where in the world(measured from records)

Josha 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 Josha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9711 in 343K889Josha153
NL Netherlands2321 in 74K147Josha30
NG Nigeria≈170 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Josha10
PH Philippines≈150 est.≈1 in 707K—Josha22
DE Germany≈120 est.≈1 in 670K1Josha40
GY Guyana21 in 375K2—1

971 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Josha is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Odia

    Also written Jose, Josh, José, Josu, Jasa

41 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Josha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, first-person singular aorist of josh

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19902000Josha Stradowski, b. 1995Josha Salchow, b. 1999Josha Vagnoman, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Josha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020889#12,718
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—147#3,475
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—91#8,467
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—85#6,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202082#12,718
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—60#10,666
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199027—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198227—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198826—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198922—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198621—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198521—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Josha mean, and where does it come from?
satisfaction Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
Is Josha a male or female name?
Josha is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
How common is the name Josha?
In the United States, the national register counted 971 people named Josha in 2020, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
In which country does Josha have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 971 people named Josha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josha.
Where is Josha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Josha is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Josha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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