About the name Yehoshua
Yehoshua belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Yehoshua first appears in Social Security records in 1970. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1688 in 2019, and in 2024 69 babies received the name — 2,348 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.