Jashua
Masculine · “the Lord is salvation”
Jashua changes one vowel of Joshua and nothing else. The name underneath is one of the oldest and most consequential in the Hebrew Bible, and it has a companion most people never notice: run the same Hebrew name through Greek instead of English and it comes out as Jesus. Two of the best-known names in the Western world are the same name in different clothes.
How old is the name Jashua?
Jashua first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Jashua alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 1,700 people named Jashua are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jashua most popular?
Jashua peaked in 1987, reaching #1123 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,885 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehoshua to Jashua
The story of Jashua
Joshua is the successor of Moses in the Hebrew Bible, the man who leads the people across the Jordan, and a book is named for him. His name stayed in Jewish use continuously, was taken up by English Protestants in the sixteenth century, and became an ordinary American boy's name in the twentieth. The a-spelling appears once a name is being written constantly by people who have only ever heard it — the first vowel of Joshua is unstressed and reduced in speech, so it can be written a or o with no change in sound at all. That is how most respellings begin.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
From Hebrew Yehoshua, built from the divine name and a verb meaning to save or rescue. The shortened later Hebrew form is Yeshua, and that is the form Greek transliterated as Iesous, which Latin made Iesus and English made Jesus.
How the name formed
- Yehoshua
- Yeshua
- Iesous
- Joshua
- Jashua
Related forms: Yehoshua · Josué · Josué · Giosuè · Yusha
Pronouncing Jashua
JOSH-oo-uh
Three syllables, stress on the first. The changed vowel is the unstressed one, so the spelling and the standard version sound identical in ordinary speech.
Nicknames for Jashua
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 198773 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1123reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- −37.5%5 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jashua in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yehoshua in Hebrew — transliteration
- Josué in Spanish — same name
- Josué in French — same name
- Giosuè in Italian — same name
- Yusha in Arabic — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Jashuas among us
people named Jashua are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Jashua
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jashua's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jo climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jo's path sketches the road Jashua is walking now.
Jashua sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jashua beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jashua in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is heard as a name everyone knows, so it needs no introduction out loud.
- Josh is waiting as a short form and requires no explanation anywhere in the English-speaking world.
- The name behind it has been in continuous use for three thousand years and belongs to two religions.
- The correction to Joshua will come from teachers, forms and software for a lifetime.
- Because the difference is silent, the spelling has to be dictated letter by letter every time.
- Josh erases the distinction entirely, which many children eventually decide they prefer.
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Masculine · #12008 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jashuas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Jashua are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jashua in 2025?
- Jashua ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jashua?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Jashua — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jashua with classmates?
- Jashua will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jashua
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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