Josiah

What Josiah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Josiah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Josiah?

US: Steady: #57 in 2015, #54 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #275 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 7,079 boys got the name (#51 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 310 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,236 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (8.48 per 1,000 boys), RI (7.04 per 1,000 boys), NV (6.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Josiah is #54 in the US and #226 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Josiah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jasiah607 US · 9 E&W
• Jesiah277 US · 12 E&W
• Jessiah88 US
• Jahsiah48 US · 4 E&W
• Joesiah19 US
• Jossiah14 US
• Jassiah13 US
• Jusiah11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Josiah

Boys

• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Nehemiah#429“consolation of Yahweh”^*
• Gideon#337Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Josiah’s. Rank is US 2025.