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The JOSHUA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,852 10344 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 221 17886 0 4
Change since 1880 +2631 +7542 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 129 11324 0.001 8
United Kingdom 343 11668 0.001 7
Top States for JOSHUA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 326 2234 0.007 73
California 290 10622 0.001 9
New York 274 8388 0.001 14
Texas 263 8304 0.001 13
Florida 170 12520 0.001 11
Top States for JOSHUA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 326 2234 0.007 73
Alaska 21 5527 0.003 33
Arkansas 66 5222 0.002 25
New York 274 8388 0.001 14
Michigan 140 10761 0.001 14

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOSHUA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOSHUA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOSHUA in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOSHUA by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOSHUA

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JOSHUA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JOSHUA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JOSHUA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 701 24.58
Asian/Pacific 140 4.91
White (Hispanic) 105 3.68
Mixed Race 102 3.58
Native American/Alaskan 81 2.84
Black/African American 1,723 60.41

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOSHUA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JOSHUA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of JOSHUA.

Similar names to JOSHUA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOSHUA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JOSHUA

The following words are slight variants of JOSHUA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.