What do people think of the baby name Josh?

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Thoughts on the name Josh? Not for me, but for my sister. She asked me to post it!!

I like Joshua

its also a translation of Jesus, if that makes any difference!

I like Ben, Sam and Matt but for some reason I really am not fond of Joshua, even less of Josh.

It does make me think of "joshing" and has a sort of squashy-joshy sound to me too.

ETA It isn't, however, a Tragedeigh sort of name. Perfectly normal and would not raise eyebrows.

Only as a nickname for Joshua.

Love Joshua. I guess it would be shortened to Josh and like that as well.

Makes me think 'slosh' and gives me the ick.

Biblical names don't go out of fashion in the same way as other names, in my opinion. Mark, Jacob, Joshua, Peter etc are all likely to come back around again and again for likely thousands more years!

Love the name Josh .

I love Joshua but Josh is the inevitable nickname and I still like it. Traditional names are great - they go anywhere and are timeless, whereas the 'fashionable ' names date a person.

I don’t like the sound either

Fine as a nickname for Joshua. I wouldn't put "Josh" itself on a birth certificate though, I agree with a PP that it's a bit of a nothing name.

One of my favourites along with Jacob and Caleb.

Josh is nice enough, wouldn’t bother calling him Joshua unless you like it. MN is stuck in a time warp where they think not having a “full name” will hold you back in life.