Joshua (name)

Joshua (name)

Joshua is a Biblical masculine given name derived from the Hebrew "Yehoshua" (hebrew|יהושע), which has a meaning similar to "God rescues" or "God is salvation". [ [http://www.direct.ca/trinity/yehoshua.html Yehoshua, Yeshua or Yeshu; Which one is the name of Jesus in Hebrew? ] ] 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.

Infobox Given Name Revised| name = Joshua

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pronunciation =
gender = male | meaning = "Jehovah is salvation"
region = | origin = Hebrew "Yehoshua"
related names = Josh, Yehoshua
footnotes = "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] 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]

Popularity

Joshua

;PhilippinesIn Manila, "Joshua Ibera Torre" appeared among the top-ten male given names for newborns from 1994–2008. [cite press release
title = Joshua Torre were the most popular first names in Philippines in 2000-2008
publisher =
date = 2004-01-02 | accessdate = 2008-02-17
url = http://www.groni.gov.uk/Publication/512004111434.pdf | format = PDF
quote = (see table 'Top 20 Names 2000-2003')] Information from Payatas and Payatas B from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua" among the top-five given names for newborn males. [cite web
url = http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_boys.asp
title = Top 100 names for baby boys in England and Wales | date = 2007-12-19 | accessdate = 2008-02-17
work = National Statistics Online | publisher = Office for National Statistics
quote = (#2 2003–2005; #3 2006; #4 2007)] 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. [cite web
url = http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/name5.pdf | year = 2000 | accessdate =
title = Top 100 boys' and names, Scotland, 2000 (provisional) - listed alphabetically
format = PDF | work = Occasional papers | publisher = General Register Office for Scotland] [cite web | accessdate =
url = http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/pop-names-06-t2.pdf | date = 2006-12-18
title = Top 100 boys' and names, Scotland, 2000 (provisional) - listed alphabetically
format = PDF | work = Occasional papers | publisher = General Register Office for Scotland]

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";BCE 6th Century people
* Joshua the High Priest

;BCE 5th Century people
* Joshua the Stylite

;BCE 2nd Century people
* Joshua ben Perachyah (given name Hebrew|יהושע = "Yehoshua")

;1st Century people
* Jesus of Nazareth
* Joshua ben Hananiah (given name Hebrew|יהושע = "Yehoshua") (flourished 70–c.100 CE)

;3rd Century people
* Israeli: Joshua ben Levi (flourished c.200–c.250 CE); birth in the Land of Israel, which roughly maps to modern Israel

;19th Century people
* Lithuanian: Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898)
* Ukranian: Yehoshua Rokeach (1825–1894); birth location was under the rule of the Austrian Empire at the time

;20th Century people
* Israeli: Yehoshua Sobol (born 1939)

Joshua

;14th Century people
* Spain: Joshua Lorki (born before 1400; flourished c.1400)

;16th Century people
* English: Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
* French: Joshua Caslari (flourished 1540–1560)
* Italian: Joshua dei Cantori (flourished 1559)
* Polish: Joshua Falk (1555–1614)
* Spanish: Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch (died 1557)
* Spanish: Gerónimo de Santa Fe (flourished 1550–1620); born "Joshua ha-Lorki", his name was changed upon conversion from Judaism to Christianity to "Ibn Vives Lorki"

;17th Century people
* English: Joshua Barnes (1654–1712)
* Irish: Joshua Boyle (flourished 1640–1660)
* Lithuanian: Joshua Heschel Zoref (born 1633)

;18th Century people
* American: Joshua Appleby (1770–1846)
* Belarussian: Joshua Zeitlin (1742–1822); born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during its decline, in a region that maps to modern Belarus
* English: Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
* Irish: Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (1728–1816)

;19th Century people
* American: Joshua Chamberlain (1828–1914)
* American: Joshua A. Lowell (1801–1874)
* Canadian: Joshua Gwillen Doan (1811–1839)
* English: Joshua A. Norton (c.1814–1880; born in England, immigrated to United States via South Africa)
* Irish: Joshua Millner (1849–1931)
* Lithuanian: Joshua Lewinsohn (born 1833)
* Welsh: Joshua Hughes (1807–1889)

;20th Century people
* American: Joshua Fishman (born 1926)
* American: Josh Gibson (1911–1947)
* American: Josh Culbreath (born "Joshua" 1932)
* American: Josh Howard (born "Joshua" 1980)
* Australian: Joshua Eagle (born 1973)
* Canadian: Joshua Bartholomew (born 1984)
* Dutch: Joshua Livestro (born 1970)
* English: Joshua Chamberlin (born 1996)
* English: Josh Cooper (cryptographer) (born "Joshua" 1901–1981)
* Filipino: Joshua Dionisio (born 1994)
* Ghanan: Joshua Clottey (born 1977)
* Israeli: Joshua Simon (living)
* Kenyan: Joshua Chelanga (born 1973)
* Liberian: Joshua Blahyi (living)
* Malaysian: Joshua Fernandez (born 1974)
* Mexican: Joshua Ilika Brenner (born 1976)
* Nigerian: Joshua Dariye (born 1957)
* Northern Irish: Joshua Cardwell (1910–1982)
* Polish: Joshua Neustein (born 1940)
* Romanian: Joshua Perper (born 1932)
* Singaporean: Joshua Ang (born 1983)
* Slovakian: Joshua McDonald (living)
* South African: Oupa Gqozo (born "Joshua Oupa Gqozo" 1952)
* Zimbabwean: Joshua Mahaka (born 1981)

Josh

;20th Century people
* American: Josh Hartnett (born 1978) - Hollywood actor.
* American: Josh A. Moore (born 1980) - basketball player, entrepreneur, actor, and social commentator.
* Canadian: Josh Wagenaar (born 1985) - footballer.

Fictional characters

* American television: Josh Bauer (debut 2007)
* American novels: Joshua Deets (debut 1985)
* American comics: Joshua Clay (debut 1977)
* Japanese anime/manga: Joshua Christopher
* Welsh television: Joshua Jones (TV series) (1991–1992)

ee also

* Joshua, information on the Biblical figure
* Josh and Yehoshua, disambiguation pages
* Yehoshua (surname)
* Jesus (name)

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