Josue
About 57,874 American babies have been named Josue since 1924, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 330th. About 57,000 Josues are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Josue boys named Josue
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,874
- Estimated living today
- 57,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 181st
- Rank in 2025
- 330th
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 185 / 57,689
How old the living Josues are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,874 babies given the name since 1924, about 57,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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.
Notable Josues
- Josué Anunciado de Oliveira (born 1979)Brazilian association football player
- Josué Duverger (born 2000)Haitian-Canadian soccer player
- Josué Pesqueira (born 1990)Portuguese footballer
- Josue Souza Santos (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
- Josué de Castro (1908–1973)Brazilian physician, writer and activist against world hunger
- Josué Casimir (born 2001)Haitian footballer
- Josué Sá (born 1992)Portuguese footballer
- Josué Martínez (born 1990)Costa Rican footballer
People named Josue with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Josue is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Josue is most concentrated in Nevada (3.0×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.7×), Arizona (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Josue peaked:
Josue elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Josue +1 spelling | 4,515 | 452nd |
| Belgium boys | Josué | 117 | 681st |
| Switzerland boys | Josué | 93 | 565th |
| England and Wales boys | Josue | 89 | 2,023rd |
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.
Josue: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Josué | 36 | 0.003% | 673rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Josué | 56 | 0.013% | 220th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Josué | 1 | 0.002% | 199th |
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.
Josue: rank by region
In 2018, Josue was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Josué | 499 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Josue 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 | Josue +1 spelling | 14 | 22 |
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 Josue lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 8,340 men called Josue 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Josue | 614 | 1.152 | 129 |
| Palmas, Las | Josue | 640 | 1.100 | 125 |
| Palencia | Josue | 56 | 0.711 | 176 |
| Toledo | Josue | 262 | 0.690 | 172 |
| Rioja, La | Josue | 100 | 0.620 | 189 |
| Cuenca | Josue | 56 | 0.555 | 205 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Josue 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.