Given name
Yehoshua
“God is salvation”
Yehoshua is a variant of Yushua. In Arabic use, Yushua carries the interpretation “God is salvation.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yehoshua is a variant of Yushua. In Arabic use, Yushua carries the interpretation “God is salvation.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yehoshua connects to the Joshua name family through Yushua. An origin associated with Joshua is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Yehoshua connects to the Joshua name family through Yushua. The history of Joshua gives this family its wider story. In biblical tradition, Joshua is the name of the Israelite leader.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Yehoshua through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,442
- 2,442 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 95 babies
- 2025
- 92
- #1,769 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +2%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 92 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,769 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 1.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 95 in 2019. In 2025, New Jersey had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (45). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,798 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yehoshua’s family of names
Yehoshua has a related form in Yushua.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yehoshua
- Yehoshua KenazIsraeli writer, literary editor and translator (1937–2020)
- Yehoshua FeigenbaumIsraeli footballerborn 1947
- Yehoshua HankinZionist activist1864–1945
- Yehoshua BlauIsraeli linguist of Semitic languages (1919–2020)
- Yehoshua Bar-HillelIsraeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist (1915-1975)
- Yehoshua GlazerIsraeli footballer (1927-2018)
- Joshua ben Hananiahlate 1st/early 2nd century Jewish tanna and sage50
- Yehoshua RabinovitzIsraeli politician (1911-1979)
- Yehoshua Leib DiskinLithuanian rabbi (1818–1898)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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