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Jashua

Jashua reached its high-water mark in 1987 at number 1,123, and has been recorded 1,710 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,600 Jashuas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Jashua

By the numbers

Total US births
1,710
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
31
Peak year
1987
Best rank
1,123rd
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1971

How old the living Jashuas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,710 babies given the name since 1971, about 1,600 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jashua is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jashua is most concentrated in New York (5.0×), Florida (3.3×), California (3.0×), Texas (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1987

The most popular boys’ names the year Jashua peaked:

All the names of 1987

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Jashua against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.