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Yoshua

yo-SHOO-ah

Popularity

#3676

rising

Letters

6

Syllables

3

Origin

Hebrew

Total Births

565

Peak Year

#31 in 2022

First Recorded

1984

Style

Spiritual & Biblical, Strong & Bold

Spelling

Moderate spelling

What It Means

Yoshua is a variant of Joshua, a Hebrew name meaning "God is salvation."

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Numerology

9

The Idealist

Compassionate, humanitarian, and visionary. Names vibrating at 9 carry universal love.

Famous Namesakes

  • Yoshua Bengio

    Canadian computer scientist working in AI

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Personality Traits

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