Joshue
Masculine · “the Lord is salvation”
Joshue is a hybrid, and a tidy one. Spanish writes this name Josué, with the stress pulled onto the last syllable by the accent. English writes the same name Joshua and says the middle consonant as sh. Put the English consonant into the Spanish frame and Joshue is exactly what comes out — a name for a household that lives in both languages.
How old is the name Joshue?
Joshue first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Joshue alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,100 people named Joshue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Joshue most popular?
Joshue peaked in 1988, reaching #1671 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,337 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehoshua to Joshue
The story of Joshue
The Joshua of the Hebrew Bible is Moses's lieutenant and then his successor, the one who leads the crossing of the Jordan and the campaign that follows. Spanish took the name from the Latin Bible as Josué and it became ordinary — a schoolroom name in Mexico and Central America, with none of the antique flavor it kept in English until recently. American records receive it from those families, and Joshue is the spelling that appears when the Spanish shape meets English spelling habits: the accent will not survive an American form anyway, and the sh is how the child's classmates will say it.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
From Hebrew Yehoshua. The same name, shortened, is the one behind Jesus, which is why Josué and Jesús are two forms of related material and why Spanish-speaking Catholic families have used both freely.
How the name formed
- Yehoshua
- Iesous
- Josué
- Joshue
Related forms: Josué · Josué · Josué · Yehoshua · Giosuè
Pronouncing Joshue
ho-SWEH
In Spanish the j is a throat sound and the stress lands on the final syllable: ho-SWEH. Read as English the same letters give JOSH-oo-ay or JOSH-yoo. The two are far apart, and a child with this spelling will hear both regularly.
Nicknames for Joshue
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
- 200445 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1671reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
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.
Joshue in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Josué in Spanish — same name
- Josué in French — same name
- Josué in Portuguese — same name
- Yehoshua in Hebrew — transliteration
- Giosuè in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Joshues among us
people named Joshue are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Joshue
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 Lavaughn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Joshue's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lavaughn climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lavaughn's path sketches the road Joshue is walking now.
Joshue 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
Joshue beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Joshue in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It works in two languages without changing a letter, which the accented Spanish spelling does not.
- Josh is available instantly in English and needs no explanation anywhere.
- The biblical name behind it is known in both cultures, so it is never a name that has to be justified.
- Two pronunciations follow it, and neither is wrong; a child will answer to both and correct neither.
- It will be written Josue, Josué and Joshua by different people, sometimes on the same day.
- Spanish-speaking relatives may read the sh as an error rather than a choice.
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Joshue
Masculine · #12008 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Joshues are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Joshue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Joshue in 2025?
- Joshue ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Joshue?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Joshue — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Joshue with classmates?
- Joshue will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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