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How popular is “Yehoshua” in the USA?

Number of people named “Yehoshua” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Yehoshua” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Yehoshua” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Yehoshua” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Yehoshua” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Yehoshua” by birth year

This chart shows how “Yehoshua” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 -100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 20 0.000005775 20 -100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 -100%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 -100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 -100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 -100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 -100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 -100%
1992 28 0.000007289 28 -100%
1993 28 0.000007427 28 -100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 -100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 -100%
1996 41 0.000011242 41 -100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 -100%
1998 36 0.000009787 36 -100%
1999 52 0.000014077 52 -100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 -100%
2001 52 0.000013891 52 -100%
2002 54 0.000014445 54 -100%
2003 47 0.000012361 47 -100%
2004 56 0.000014656 56 -100%
2005 52 0.000013525 52 -100%
2006 62 0.000015672 62 -100%
2007 67 0.00001676 67 -100%
2008 77 0.00001959 77 -100%
2009 63 0.000016491 63 -100%
2010 86 0.00002327 86 -100%
2011 80 0.000021871 80 -100%
2012 68 0.000018593 68 -100%
2013 80 0.000021944 80 -100%
2014 70 0.000018886 70 -100%
2015 74 0.000019995 74 -100%
2016 72 0.000019625 72 -100%
2017 83 0.000023209 83 -100%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 -100%
2019 95 0.00002737 95 -100%
2020 78 0.000023349 78 -100%
2021 93 0.00002745 93 -100%
2022 75 0.000022169 75 -100%
2023 73 0.000022046 73 -100%
2024 69 0.00002073 69 -100%

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