Name: Josiah
Gender: Male
Usage: Josiah, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Josiah are in general originating from Israel, Philippines, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Josiah across the world, see Yoshiya.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Josiah is: The lord saves, Jehovah has healed.
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Numerology of the first name Josiah: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Josiah is ranked on the 2,410th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 157600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Josiah has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Josiah for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Josiah /dʒɵˈzaɪ.ə/ is a given name derived from the Hebrew Yoshi-yahu (Hebrew: יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Modern Yošiyyáhu Tiberian Yôšiyyāhû, "supported of Yahu (YHWH)".
The Latin form Josias was used in some early English translations of the Bible.
Biblical name (meaning ‘God heals’ in Hebrew) borne by a king of Judah, whose story is recounted in 2 Kings 22–3. This was fairly frequently used as a given name in the English-speaking world, especially among Dissenters, from the 18th to the early 20th century. The most famous English bearer is the potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95). In North America this was a recurrent name in the Quincy family of Massachusetts; the best-known Josiah Quincy (1744–75) was a pre-Revolutionary patriot, who died at the age of thirty-one while returning from arguing the cause of the American colonists in London.
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