Yashua
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yah-SHOO-ah
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Yashua is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is salvation”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Yashua mean?
Hebrew: variant of Yeshua, the Hebrew form of Joshua and Jesus
“God is salvation”
A form of Yeshua, the Hebrew and Aramaic name of Jesus, which is also the root of Joshua.
Is Yashua a girl's or a boy's name?
Yashua is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yashua in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Yashua, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2007, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the boys named Yashua in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yashua in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,090 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,788 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,708 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,981 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,636 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 7 | #6,985 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,446 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,652 |
Names like Yashua
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Ibrahim Yahir Hamza Zamir Yeshua Muhammad Mustafa Yehuda Yusuf Alijah Yahya
Names related to Yashua
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yashua: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yashua, updated 20 October 2026.