Josias

What Josias means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Josias?

US: Rising: up from #1231 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #4747 in 2015, #4275 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 247 boys got the name (#950 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 6,915 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 67,984 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NJ (0.38 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.31 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.26 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Josias is #950 in the US and #4275 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Josias were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jasias12 US
• Josiahs5 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 Josias

Boys

• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*
• Hezekiah#485“Yahu is My Strength”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Yehuda#740Editor’s note Up from #939 in 2015 to #740 in 2025 in the US
• Yosef#663Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025

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