Joshua
1.03k
Babies in 2024
-73%
10-year change
2003
Peak · 8.19k
-23%
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 Joshua
Joshua peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (8,190 babies in 2003) and has remained in active use — 1,027 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Joshua reached its peak in 2003, when 8,190 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,027 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 145,192 boys have been officially registered with the name Joshua in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 26,809 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3,812 in 2014 and ending at 1,027 in 2024.