Joshua (name)

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This article is about the masculine given name "Joshua". For the Biblical figure, see Joshua.
Joshua
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Joshua and the Israelite people by Karolingischer Buchmaler, c.840
Pronunciation /ˈdʒɒʃʊə/,[1]
Gender male
Origin
Word/name Hebrew Yehoshua
Meaning "Yahweh is salvation"
Other names
Related names Josh, Jesus, Josue
[2][3][4]

Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />יהושע‎). The name was a common alternative form of the name יֵשׁוּעַ – yēšūă which corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous, from which, through the Latin Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus.[5][6]

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.

Popularity

Joshua

Information from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua" among the top-five given names for newborn males.[7] 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.[8][9]

Instances of use

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.

Yehoshua

Ancient people whose names were certainly rendered in Hebrew are placed here regardless of the actual name currently attributed to them

BC 13th century people
BC 6th century people
BC 2nd century people
  • Joshua ben Perachyah (given name <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />יהושע‎ = Yehoshua)
1st century people
  • Joshua ben Hananiah (given name <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />יהושע‎ = Yehoshua) (flourished 70 – c.100 CE)
  • Jesus of Nazareth
3rd century people
6th century people
19th century people
20th century people

Joshua

14th century people
16th century people
17th century people
18th century people
19th century people
20th century people

Josh

20th and 21st century people

Fictional characters

See also

References and notes

  1. ↑ Joshua at Oxford Dictionaries Online
  2. ↑ A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament Francis Brown, with S.R. Driver and C.A. Briggs, based on the lexicon of William Gesenius. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 221 & 446
  3. ↑ Blue Letter Bible. "Dictionary and Word Search for Yĕhowshuwa` (Strong's 03091)". Blue Letter Bible. 1996–2008. 16 Feb 2008. http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H3091
  4. ↑ Behind the name – Joshua- feminine form http://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/39476
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