Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Joshu

#15,832 most common boys' name of all time · #41,151 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1971–1994

Rank among boys
#15,832
Rank overall
#41,151 of 105,966
First appeared
1971
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
96
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1988 #4,640
Best rank
#4,141 1974
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1980

Joshu first appears in 1971. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1994 — 7 7 #7,284
1993 — 8 8 #6,475
1992 — 5 5 #8,919
1989 — 9 9 #5,403
1988 — 10 10 #4,640
1987 — 6 6 #6,514
1986 — 7 7 #5,675
1985 — 9 9 #4,571
1983 — 6 6 #5,924
1982 — 8 8 #4,883
1979 — 7 7 #5,194
1974 — 8 8 #4,141
1971 — 6 6 #4,876