Josiyah
Masculine · “the Lord supports”
Josiyah is a spelling of Josiah, a Hebrew name that reads as a sentence about healing — the Lord supports, or the Lord heals. It belongs to a young king who found a lost book in the temple.
How old is the name Josiyah?
Josiyah first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Josiyah is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Josiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Josiyah most popular?
Josiyah peaked in 2017, reaching #2217 nationally. Today it ranks #3450, 1,233 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yoshiyahu to Josiyah
The story of Josiyah
Josiah came to the throne of Judah as a child and, the account says, a scroll of the law was found during repairs to the temple and read to him, after which he reformed the kingdom's worship. The name entered English through the Bible and was used heavily by Protestant families in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its modern American return is recent, and Josiyah is one of the newer spellings.
Meaning
the Lord supports, the Lord heals
From Hebrew Yoshiyahu, joining a verb generally read as to support or to heal to a form of the divine name; the -yah and -iah endings across this family of names are all the same element.
How the name formed
- Yoshiyahu
- Josiah
- Josiyah
Related forms: Josiah · Yoshiyahu · Josías
Pronouncing Josiyah
joh-SY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Identical in sound to Josiah.
Nicknames for Josiyah
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
- 2001
- Most boys named
- 201760 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2217reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +10.0%33 in 2025, from 30
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.
Josiyah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Josiah in English — spelling variant
- Yoshiyahu in Hebrew — same name
- Josías in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Josiyahs among us
people named Josiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was named Josiyah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Josiyah
- #3450
- Josiyah on the 2025 chart
- #55
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Josiyah went to 33 boys in 2025, but Josiah and Joziah are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 5,781, which makes it the 55th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,395 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 295 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,760 for Josiyah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Daivon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Josiyah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Daivon climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Daivon's path sketches the road Josiyah is walking now.
Josiyah 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 Josiyah is headed
Josiyah is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Josiyah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Josiyah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Joe is available immediately as an entirely ordinary short form.
- A documented biblical name with a genuinely good story attached.
- Josiah is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- The sound is very widely used, so a classroom may hold more than one.
- Josiah, Josiyah and Joziah are all in use and only the first is standard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Josiyahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Josiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Josiyah?
- Josiyah is one of 3 recorded spellings. Josiah is the more common one — 5,509 births in 2025 against 33 for Josiyah.
- How popular is the name Josiyah in 2025?
- Josiyah ranks #3450 among US boy names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Josiyah?
- About 1 in every 51,760 US boys born in 2025 was named Josiyah — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Josiyah with classmates?
- Josiyah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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