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Baby name
Josh
Boy
Origin of the name
Josh is a short form of Joshua.
Classic name
17,288births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 339rank at its peak, in 1979
Where babies named Josh are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Josh is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Josh is most common in Florida (2.1 times), Louisiana (1.7) and Georgia (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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