Gender:
Origin:
Hebrew
864 famous people named Joshua found on Wikipedia.
1209700 male, 4915 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
41-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
3-th in year 2006
Used in: Biblical, English
A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “God is salvation.”.
Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (יהושע). The name was a common alternative form of the name יֵשׁוּעַ – yēšūă which corresponds to the Greek spelling Ἰησοῦς (Iesous), from which, through the Latin Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus.
As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th century who have this name are Jewish. A variant, truncated form of the name, Josh, gained popularity in the United States in the 1970s.
Masc. proper name, biblical successor of Moses as leader of the Israelites, from Late Latin Jeshua, Joshua, a transliteration of Hebrew Yehoshua, literally "the Lord is salvation." In the top 10 list of names for boys in the U.S. since 1979. Joshua-tree (1867) is perhaps [OED] so called because its shape compared to pictures of Joshua brandishing a spear (Joshua viii.18).
Salvation comes from God.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Joshua | 1989 | English professional boxer |
| 2 | Joshua Jackson | 1978 | Canadian actor |
| 3 | Joshua Kushner | 1985 | American businessman |
| 4 | Joshua Sasse | 1987 | Actor |
| 5 | Joshua | Figure in the Torah | |
| 6 | Joshua Kimmich | 1995 | German footballer |
| 7 | Joshua Leonard | 1975 | American actor |
| 8 | Joshua Malina | 1966 | American actor |
| 9 | T.B. Joshua | 1963 | Nigerian Christian leader |
| 10 | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 1828 | Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient |
| 11 | Joshua Bell | 1967 | American violinist |
| 12 | Joshua Dobbs | 1995 | American football player |
| 13 | Joshua Waitzkin | 1976 | Chess player |
| 14 | Joshua Morrow | 1974 | American actor |
| 15 | Joshua Reynolds | 1723 | English painter, specialising in portraits |
| 16 | Joshua Oppenheimer | 1974 | American film director |
| 17 | Joshua Rush | 2001 | American actor |
| 18 | Joshua John Miller | 1974 | Actor |
| 19 | Joshua Henry | 1984 | Actor and singer |
| 20 | Joshua Gomez | 1975 | American actor |
| 21 | Joshua Bekenstein | ||
| 22 | Joshua Nkomo | 1917 | Zimbabwean politician |
| 23 | Joshua Radin | 1974 | American musician |
| 24 | Joshua Leakey | 1988 | British soldier and VC recipient |
| 25 | Joshua L. Wheeler | 1975 | American soldier (1975-2015) |
| 26 | Joshua McGuire | 1987 | British actor |
| 27 | Joshua Slocum | 1844 | American navigator and maritime writer |
| 28 | Joshua Wong | 1996 | Hong Kong activist |
| 29 | Joshua garcia | 1997 | Filipino actor |
| 30 | Joshua Clottey | 1977 | Ghanaian boxer |
| 31 | Joshua Bloch | 1961 | American software engineer |
| 32 | Joshua Redman | 1969 | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
| 33 | Joshua Bolten | 1954 | American lawyer; former Director of the Office of Management and Budget |
| 34 | Joshua Fry Speed | 1814 | Close friend of Abraham Lincoln from his days in Springfield, Illinois, where Speed was a partner in a general store |
| 35 | Joshua Topolsky | 1977 | American journalist |
| 36 | Joshua Ledet | 1992 | Singer |
| 37 | Joshua Ryne Goldberg | 1995 | |
| 38 | Joshua Allen | 1989 | Television contest winner |
| 39 | Joshua Close | 1981 | Canadian actor |
| 40 | Joshua Kadison | 1963 | American singer-songwriter |
| 41 | Joshua Mintz | 1965 | Television executive |
| 42 | Joshua Lederberg | 1925 | American molecular biologist |
| 43 | Joshua Browder | ||
| 44 | Joshua Feuerstein | 1981 | |
| 45 | Joshua Sridhar | 1974 | Indian Composer |
| 46 | Joshua Foer | 1982 | American freelance journalist; memory champion |
| 47 | Joshua Garnett | 1994 | |
| 48 | Joshua Seth | 1970 | American magician |
| 49 | Joshua Dionisio | 1994 | Filipino actor |
| 50 | Joshua Logan | 1908 | American stage and film director and writer |
| 51 | Joshua Harto | 1979 | Actor, television producer and writer |
| 52 | Joshua Brillante | 1993 | Australian soccer player |
| 53 | Joshua Buatsi | 1993 | Ghanaian-born British boxer |
| 54 | Joshua Tetrick | 1980 | American social entrepreneur |
| 55 | Joshua Gatt | 1991 | American soccer player |
| 56 | Joshua Kennedy | 1982 | Australian soccer player |
| 57 | Joshua Ozersky | 1967 | American food writer |
| 58 | Joshua Otay | 1993 | |
| 59 | Joshua Brenet | 1994 | Dutch footballer |
| 60 | Joshua Braff | 1967 | American writer |
| 61 | Joshua Pérez | 1998 | |
| 62 | Joshua Rozenberg | 1950 | British journalist |
| 63 | Joshua Fishman | 1926 | American linguist |
| 64 | Joshua Rosenthal | ||
| 65 | Joshua Ferris | 1974 | American author |
| 66 | Joshua Perry | 1994 | |
| 67 | Joshua Michael Stern | 1961 | American film director and screenwriter |
| 68 | Joshua Cooper Ramo | 1968 | American political analyst |
| 69 | Joshua Eustis | 1977 | American musician |
| 70 | Joshua Rosa | 1986 | American murderer |
| 71 | Joshua W. Alexander | 1852 | American politician |
| 72 | Joshua Marston | 1968 | American screenwriter and film director |
| 73 | Joshua Eagle | 1973 | Australian tennis player |
| 74 | Joshua Brand | 1952 | Writer |
| 75 | Joshua Bonehill | 1992 | |
| 76 | Joshua Ang | 1989 | Singaporean actor |
| 77 | Joshua John | 1988 | Dutch football player |
| 78 | Joshua Devane | American actor | |
| 79 | Joshua French | 1982 | Norwegian-born security contractor and former soldier |
| 80 | Joshua Rifkin | 1944 | American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist |
| 81 | Joshua Prince-Ramus | 1969 | American architect |
| 82 | Joshua John Ward | 1800 | American politician |
| 83 | Joshua Clay | ||
| 84 | Joshua Lionel Cowen | 1877 | American inventor |
| 85 | Joshua DuBois | 1982 | American pastor |
| 86 | Joshua Pandelaki | Indonesian actor | |
| 87 | Prem Joshua | German musician | |
| 88 | Joshua Donen | American film producer | |
| 89 | Joshua Schachter | 1974 | American computer businessman |
| 90 | Larry Joshua | 1952 | American film actor |
| 91 | Joshua Greene | Psychologist | |
| 92 | Joshua James | 1826 | United States Lifesaver |
| 93 | Jaycen Joshua | Mix Engineer | |
| 94 | Joshua Harris | 1978 | American actor |
| 95 | Joshua David Stone | 1953 | American writer |
| 96 | Joshua Cohen | 1951 | American philosopher |
| 97 | Joshua Knobe | 1974 | American philosopher |
| 98 | Joshua Silver | British ophthalmologist | |
| 99 | Joshua Farris | 1995 | Figure skater |
| 100 | Joshua Bryant | 1939 | American actor |
| 101 | Joshua Packwood | American businessman | |
| 102 | Joshua Wurman | 1960 | American meteorologist |
| 103 | Joshua Cox | 1965 | American actor |
| 104 | Joshua Alba | 1982 | Actor |
| 105 | Joshua Cain | 1976 | American musician |
| 106 | Joshua Meyrowitz | 1949 | American academic |
| 107 | Joshua Muravchik | 1947 | American writer |
| 108 | Joshua Glover | Runaway slave from St. Louis, Missouri | |
| 109 | Joshua Humphreys | 1751 | American shipbuilder |
| 110 | Joshua Barney | 1759 | United States Navy officer |
| 111 | Joshua Rogers | 1994 | Singer |
| 112 | Joshua Yaro | 1994 | |
| 113 | Joshua ben Hananiah | ||
| 114 | Joshua Jay | 1981 | American magician |
| 115 | Joshua Hyslop | Singer | |
| 116 | Joshua Landis | 1957 | American academic |
| 117 | Joshua Hassan | 1915 | Chief Minister of Gibraltar |
| 118 | Joshua King | 1798 | British mathematician |
| 119 | Joshua Angrist | 1960 | Israeli American economist |
| 120 | Joshua Rose | 1981 | Australian soccer player |
| 121 | Joshua Boyle | Irish politician | |
| 122 | Joshua Reed Giddings | 1795 | American politician |
| 123 | Joshua Furno | 1989 | Italian rugby union player |
| 124 | Joshua Clover | 1962 | Poet, critic, journalist, author |
| 125 | Joshua Dariye | 1957 | Nigerian politician |
| 126 | Joshua Sternin | Television producer and writer | |
| 127 | Joshua Davis | 1974 | Writer |
| 128 | Joshua Winstead | ||
| 129 | Joshua Butler | 1973 | American director and film editor |
| 130 | Joshua Pim | 1869 | Irish tennis player |
| 131 | Joshua Logan Moore | 1994 | American actor |
| 132 | Joshua Nesbitt | 1988 | American football player |
| 133 | Joshua Huddy | 1735 | American militia commander |
| 134 | Joshua Moore | 1988 | American football cornerback |
| 135 | Joshua Longstaff | 1982 | American basketball coach |
| 136 | Joshua ben Levi | 0300 | |
| 137 | Joshua Oigara | ||
| 138 | Joshua Compston | 1970 | British art curator |
| 139 | Joshua V. Himes | 1805 | Christian leader and publisher from the United States |
| 140 | Joshua Prawer | 1917 | Israeli medievalist and educator |
| 141 | Joshua LeBar | 1977 | American actor |
| 142 | Joshua M. Zeitz | 1974 | Historian and author |
| 143 | Joshua Tenenbaum | 1972 | Professor of Cognitive Science |
| 144 | Joshua Johnson | 1763 | American painter |
| 145 | Joshua Hammer | 1957 | American journalist |
| 146 | Joshua Roman | 1983 | American musician |
| 147 | Joshua Marshman | 1768 | Christian missionary |
| 148 | Joshua Claus | American convicted of war crimes | |
| 149 | Joshua Ingram | 1992 | |
| 150 | Joshua Klein | 1974 | American technologist |
| 151 | Joshua M. Epstein | Professor Emergency medicine | |
| 152 | Joshua Houston | 1822 | American slave owned by Sam Houston |
| 153 | Joshua Pearce | American engineer | |
| 154 | Joshua Dolezal | ||
| 155 | Joshua Perper | 1932 | American medical examiner |
| 156 | Joshua Hale Fialkov | 1979 | Writer |
| 157 | Joshua Safran | 1975 | American attorney, women's rights advocate, and memoirist |
| 158 | Joshua Ward | 1685 | British chemist |
| 159 | Joshua Ward-Hibbert | 1994 | British tennis player |
| 160 | Joshua Bean | 1818 | American mayor |
| 161 | Joshua Sang | Kenyan journalist | |
| 162 | Maurice Joshua | 1967 | Musician |
| 163 | Joshua Prager | 1949 | American doctor |
| 164 | Joshua Treviño | American political consultant | |
| 165 | Joshua Sason | American businessman | |
| 166 | Joshua Alan | 1984 | |
| 167 | Joshua ben Gamla | ||
| 168 | Joshua Fry | 1699 | American politician |
| 169 | Joshua Dysart | 1971 | American comic book writer |
| 170 | Joshua Jebb | 1793 | British army officer |
| 171 | Joshua Svaty | 1977 | Kansas politician |
| 172 | Joshua Bartholomew | 1984 | Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Producer |
| 173 | Joshua Steiner | American businessman | |
| 174 | Joshua ben Perachiah | ||
| 175 | Joshua Middleton | Artist and designer of animation, film, and comics | |
| 176 | Joshua Green | 1869 | American banker and businessman |
| 177 | Joshua L. Liebman | 1907 | American rabbi |
| 178 | Joshua Lewis | ||
| 179 | Joshua Sobol | 1939 | Israeli dramatist |
| 180 | Joshua Sinclair | 1957 | American writer, actor and director |
| 181 | Joshua Cushman | 1761 | American politician |
| 182 | Joshua L. Goldberg | 1896 | United States Navy chaplain |
| 183 | Joshua Clayton | 1744 | American politician |
| 184 | Joshua Harmon | 1971 | American poet |
| 185 | Joshua Mance | 1992 | American sprinter |
| 186 | Joshua Brookes | 1761 | British scientist |
| 187 | Joshua Leavitt | 1794 | American journalist |
| 188 | Joshua Shelley | 1920 | American actor |
| 189 | Joshua W. Sill | 1831 | Union Army General |
| 190 | Joshua Smith | 1905 | Australian painter |
| 191 | Joshua Sharfstein | 1969 | American politician |
| 192 | Joshua Tan | Singaporean actor | |
| 193 | Joshua Ortega | 1974 | Writer |
| 194 | Joshua Nadeau | 1994 | Footballer |
| 195 | Joshua Irungu | 1970 | Kenyan politician |
| 196 | Joshua Key | 1978 | American activist |
| 197 | Joshua Greenberg | 1976 | Academic working in sociology of scientific knowledge. |
| 198 | Joshua Mann-Rea | 1981 | Australian rugby union player |
| 199 | Joshua Gamson | ||
| 200 | Joshua Orwa Ojode | 1958 | Kenyan politician |