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The table below indicates the number of times the name Josh has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Josh**
Use of the Name Josh for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
12,457	11,301	5,905	2,187	1,292	577	305

The table below indicates the number of times the name Josh has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Josh**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	300	31
1881	356	22
1882	504	14
1883	321	27
1884	341	27
1885	371	23
1886	317	29
1887	444	15
1888	381	24
1889	385	22
1890	364	24
1891	404	19
1892	408	22
1893	471	16
1894	473	18
1895	364	27
1896	413	23
1897	418	21
1898	424	22
1899	468	17
1900	461	25
1901	460	18
1902	529	17
1903	459	21
1904	527	18
1905	580	17
1906	694	13
1907	574	19
1908	496	26
1909	584	21
1910	610	23
1911	554	30
1912	687	39
1913	793	36
1914	873	39
1915
1916	860	54
1917	999	43
1918	958	49
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923	966	51
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936	966	42
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952	965	55
1953	950	57
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958	918	68
1959	679	126
1960	693	129
1961	675	131
1962	753	103
1963	732	114
1964	780	93
1965	732	103
1966	734	100
1967	723	106
1968	655	134
1969	565	192
1970	509	248
1971	450	322
1972	420	355
1973	385	400
1974	345	489
1975	361	456
1976	392	389
1977	399	382
1978	374	425
1979	340	531
1980	378	453
1981	444	344
1982	497	293
1983	488	297
1984	531	260
1985	563	245
1986	600	220
1987	596	232
1988	612	239
1989	685	213
1990	699	211
1991	762	180
1992	779	179
1993	781	183
1994	811	169
1995	795	183
1996	848	165
1997	787	188
1998	875	166
1999	794	193
2000	821	195
2001	715	246
2002	673	274
2003	696	272
2004	659	305
Totals:		12,457		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Josh as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Josh appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 89 times during the last 125 years.

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