Josias
Josias is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 950th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 950th. About 3,500 Josiases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Josias
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,517
- Estimated living today
- 3,500
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 950th
- Rank in 2025
- 950th
- First recorded
- 1975
How old the living Josiases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,517 babies given the name since 1975, about 3,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Josiass
- Prince Josias of Coburg (1737–1815)Austrian general
- Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697–1764)duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884–1980)Swiss botanist
- Josias von Heeringen (1850–1926)German general
- Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896–1967)German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS
- Josias Simmler (1530–1576)Swiss theologian
- Josias Moli (born 1954)Vanuatuan politician
People named Josias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Josias is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Josias is most concentrated in Florida (3.5×), Texas (3.2×), California (2.4×), North Carolina (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Josias peaked:
Josias elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Josias | 400 | 1,983rd |
| Switzerland boys | Josias | 107 | 566th |
| England and Wales boys | Josias | 37 | 2,613th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Josias: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Josias | 67 | 0.005% | 479th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Josias | 38 | 0.009% | 406th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Josias | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Josias | 1 | 0.027% | 12th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Josias by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Josias among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Josias | 13 | 25 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Josias lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 193 men called Josias were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Josias | 12 | 0.021 | 3,279 |
| Toledo | Josias | 6 | 0.016 | 2,349 |
| Murcia | Josias | 13 | 0.016 | 2,377 |
| Zaragoza | Josias | 6 | 0.012 | 3,477 |
| Madrid | Josias | 41 | 0.012 | 3,498 |
| Bizkaia | Josias | 6 | 0.011 | 3,044 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Josias against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.