Josue Boy
How popular is Josue?
#330 boy name in 2025
1,026 baby boys were named Josue in the US in 2025, making it the 330th most popular boy name.
Josue popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #330 for boys (▼ 36 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,026 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #272 in 2015, #275 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (2,272 boys) |
| Highest rank | #181 in 2007 |
| First recorded | 1924 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Josue counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Josue family of names ranked #327 for boys in 2025 (#297 the year before), with 1,031 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Josue | 1,026 | 100% |
| Jossue | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Josue is most popular
Babies named Josue per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 1.5 per 1,000 (173 boys)
- Texas: 1.3 per 1,000 (1,157 boys)
- California: 1.1 per 1,000 (976 boys)
- Nebraska: 1.0 per 1,000 (45 boys)
- District of Columbia: 0.9 per 1,000 (14 boys)
Josue by decade
| Decade | Baby boys | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 15 | #2,764 |
| 1930s | 52 | #2,479 |
| 1940s | 49 | #2,270 |
| 1950s | 157 | #1,592 |
| 1960s | 354 | #1,075 |
| 1970s | 1,437 | #535 |
| 1980s | 4,510 | #335 |
| 1990s | 10,739 | #245 |
| 2000s | 18,322 | #181 |
| 2010s | 15,276 | #184 |
| 2020s | 6,778 | #275 |
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Questions
- Is Josue a boy or girl name?
- Josue is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Josue were boys.
- How popular is the name Josue?
- 1,026 baby boys were named Josue in the US in 2025, making it the 330th most popular boy name.
- When was Josue most popular?
- Josue peaked in 2007, when 2,272 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #181 in 2007.
- How many people are named Josue?
- 57,874 babies have been named Josue in the US since 1880. We estimate about 56,614 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Josue most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Josue was most common in Maryland, at 1.5 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.