Joziah
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Jehovah Has Healed. Biblical Josiah Became King Of Judah At Eight After His Father Was Assassinated. He Ruled 31 Years.
- Origin
- Hebrew
About the Name Joziah
Joziah is a contemporary respelling of Josiah, the Hebrew name Yoshiyahu traditionally understood to mean "Jehovah has healed." In scripture, Josiah became king of Judah at the age of eight after his father was assassinated and went on to reign for some thirty-one years, remembered as a young reformer who restored the temple — a backstory that lends the name a quiet weight of resilience and early responsibility. The z-spelling gives the old biblical name a sleeker, more modern look.
The Jo- opening aligns it with the broad family of biblical J names while the -iah ending matches the current taste for melodic, faith-rooted boy names that flow off the tongue. Joziah first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2011, climbed to its peak in 2016 at #686, and remained in the rankings at #989 in 2024 after a place at #863 the year before and #809 in 2022 — a long, steady presence across more than a decade.
Three flowing syllables give Joziah a gentle, contemporary cadence, and it offers the easy nicknames Joey, Joz, or Zi. It sits comfortably alongside Josiah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah for families drawn to scriptural names with a soft musicality and a hint of history. For parents who admire the biblical Josiah's story but want a fresher spelling, Joziah offers that bridge between ancient meaning and modern sound.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Joziah
US Popularity History (2011–2024)
Annual US births named Joziah by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2019 with 364 boys named Joziah (boy rank #693 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2024, ranked #989 for boys (227 US births). That's 296 places below its 2019 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Joziah Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Joziah the strongest states are New Mexico, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #297 | 39 |
| 2 | Connecticut | #377 | 39 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | #513 | 89 |
| 4 | Nevada | #526 | 26 |
| 5 | Arizona | #545 | 98 |
| 6 | Texas | #552 | 491 |
| 7 | California | #580 | 487 |
| 8 | Colorado | #604 | 51 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #649 | 18 |
| 10 | New Jersey | #649 | 62 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tennessee | #929 | 31 |
| 2 | Georgia | #922 | 26 |
| 3 | Louisiana | #862 | 15 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #831 | 72 |
| 5 | Ohio | #827 | 31 |
| 6 | Indiana | #813 | 21 |
| 7 | New York | #795 | 145 |
| 8 | Washington | #789 | 38 |
| 9 | Pennsylvania | #758 | 43 |
| 10 | Illinois | #742 | 102 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Joziah in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Joziah to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Joziah against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).