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 [ syll. ye-hos-hua, yeh-osh-ua ] The boy name Yehoshua is pronounced YahHHow-SHuwah KEY. Yehoshua's origin is Hebrew, and its use, Yiddish. Yehoshua is a variant form of the English Joshua. Yehoshua is unusual as a baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly linked to Yehoshua, the English Joshua was the most regularly used. Baby names that sound like Yehoshua include the Hebrew Yeshayahu, the Japanese Yoshiaki, the Japanese Yoshikazu, the Japanese Yoshiyuki, the Japanese Yasushi, the Hebrew and Yiddish Yeshua, the Japanese Yoshio, the English Yoshua, the Japanese Yukiko, the Japanese Yukio, the Japanese Yukiyo, the Arabic Yushua, the Polish Jozio, the Polish Juziu, the English Ulyses, the Spanish Yago, the name Yakez, the Russian Yashko, the Russian Yeska, and the Russian Yesya. KEY: approx English pronunciation for Yehoshua: Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
