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[ syll. yos-hua, yo-sh-ua ] The boy name Yoshua is pronounced YOW-SHuwah †. Yoshua has its origins in the Hebrew language and it is used largely in English. Yoshua is a variant form of the English Joshua. Yoshua is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Yoshua, Joshua was the most frequently used. Baby names that sound like Yoshua include the Japanese Yasuji, the Japanese Yasushi, the Japanese Yasuzo, the name Yeshaya, the Hebrew and Yiddish Yeshua, the Japanese Yoshio, the Hebrew Yoshiya, the Japanese Yosuke, the Japanese Yukiko, the Japanese Yukio, the Japanese Yukiyo, the Arabic Yushua, the Japanese Yusuke, the Polish Jozio, the Polish Juziu, the English Ulyses, the Spanish Yago, the name Yakez, the name Yaki, and the Russian Yasha.
† approx pronunciation for Yoshua: Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; 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)"   |
