# Josue (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/josue/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 57,874 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 57,689 / 185 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 89, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | 9,902 |
| 1993 | 8 | 9,996 |
| 1994 | 11 | 7,838 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,423 |
| 1996 | 10 | 8,454 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,783 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,223 |
| 1999 | 5 | 15,509 |
| 2000 | 7 | 12,402 |
| 2001 | 5 | 16,533 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,671 |
| 2005 | 9 | 11,327 |
| 2006 | 9 | 11,891 |
| 2009 | 7 | 14,384 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,707 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,639 | 214 |
| 2012 | 1,514 | 237 |
| 2013 | 1,454 | 251 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | 268 |
| 2015 | 1,348 | 273 |
| 2016 | 1,353 | 271 |
| 2017 | 1,538 | 240 |
| 2018 | 1,664 | 226 |
| 2019 | 1,402 | 259 |
| 2020 | 1,231 | 275 |
| 2021 | 1,079 | 311 |
| 2022 | 1,173 | 290 |
| 2023 | 1,125 | 295 |
| 2024 | 1,144 | 294 |
| 2025 | 1,026 | 330 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,023 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Josue

- Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian association football player
- Josue Souza Santos, Brazilian association football player
- Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, writer and activist against world hunger (1908–1973)
- Josué Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
- Paulo Josué, Brazilian-Malaysian footballer
- Josué Balamandji, Central African footballer
- Josue Dupon, Belgian sculptor (1864-1935)
- René-Josué Valin, French lawyer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.