Jeshua
Masculine · “the Lord is salvation”
Jeshua is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,623 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Jeshua is the Hebrew behind Jesus — the Lord is salvation — and the later biblical books use this shortened form.
How old is the name Jeshua?
Jeshua first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Jeshua alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,600 people named Jeshua are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeshua most popular?
Jeshua peaked in 2005, reaching #1048 nationally. Today it ranks #2572, 1,524 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehoshua to Jeshua
The story of Jeshua
Yehoshua contracted to Yeshua in the post-exilic books, and it was the ordinary form in first-century Palestine; Greek turned it into Iesous and Latin into Iesus. So Joshua and Jesus are the same name at different stages. Jeshua appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
From the Hebrew Yeshua, a contracted form of Yehoshua — Joshua — from yesha, 'salvation', and the divine name. Ezra and Nehemiah use Yeshua; Greek rendered it Iesous, whence Jesus. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- Yehoshua
- Yeshua
- Jeshua
Related forms: ישוע · Yeshua · Joshua
Pronouncing Jeshua
yeh-SHOO-ah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. English speakers often say jeh-SHOO-uh.
Nicknames for Jeshua
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 2007165 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1048reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −8.9%51 in 2025, from 56
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.
Jeshua in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ישוע in Hebrew — transliteration
- Yeshua in English — spelling variant
- Joshua in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jeshuas among us
people named Jeshua are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 33,492 born in 2025 was named Jeshua
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 Sunny test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeshua's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sunny climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sunny's path sketches the road Jeshua is walking now.
Jeshua 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
Where Jeshua is headed
Jeshua looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 22% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jeshua beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeshua in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Joshua and Jesus are the same name is a first-rate fact.
- The Lord-is-salvation meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- Josh is available as an English short form with a large record.
- It is the Hebrew name of Jesus, which some families will weigh.
- Yeshua is the commoner transliteration.
- Hebrew and English pronounce the initial letter differently.
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Masculine · #2572 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jeshuas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Jeshua are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeshua in 2025?
- Jeshua ranks #2572 among US boy names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeshua?
- About 1 in every 33,492 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeshua — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeshua with classmates?
- Jeshua will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jeshua
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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