Josh
37
Babies in 2024
-80%
10-year change
2002
Peak · 657
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Josh
Josh peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (657 babies in 2002) and has remained in active use — 37 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Josh reached its peak in 2002, when 657 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #84 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 37 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 9,152 boys have been officially registered with the name Josh in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 972 boys were registered with the name, starting from 185 in 2014 and ending at 37 in 2024.