Joshua is a Biblical masculine given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (יהושע), which has a meaning similar to "God rescues" or "God is salvation". 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.
"Joshua" appeared among the top-ten male given names for newborns from 1994–2008. Inf...
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Joshua is a Biblical masculine given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (יהושע), which has a meaning similar to "God rescues" or "God is salvation". 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.
"Joshua" appeared among the top-ten male given names for newborns from 1994–2008. Information from Office for National Statistics from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua" among the top-five given names for newborn males. In Scotland, the popularity of "Joshua" has been substantially lower than in the rest of the United Kingdom, appearing at rank 35 in 2000 and rising to rank 22 in 2006.
Following is a short annotated list of persons, real and fictional, sharing "Joshua" or "Josh" or very rarely "Yehoshua" as a given name, representative of the breadth in geography and time of the names' use.
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