Josiah
234
Babies in 2024
+47%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 238
+18%
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 Josiah
Josiah appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #212 with 234 boys registered in England & Wales.
Josiah reached its peak in 2018, when 238 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #219 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,984 boys have been officially registered with the name Josiah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,222 boys were registered with the name, starting from 159 in 2014 and ending at 234 in 2024.