The name Joshua for boys in Scotland

This page shows the Joshua (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1975 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Joshua was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Joshua's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Joshua for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Joshua appears in 48 of them, from 1975 to 2025, with 6,961 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2002, when the table records 300 babies given the name, at rank 23 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1975 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Joshua for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.