Hi,

We found out this week we are expecting another boy, which has put my head into a spin as I'm now trying to find a boys name I like...so I will probably be in this Baby Names threads alot over the next 4-5months. I already got to use my favourite boys name on my first son, Cameron. I'd started to prepare for the possibilty of another boy a few weeks ago and kept coming back to Joshua, but I didn't want a name too popular, so kept trying to put it out of my mind. But now, knowing we are a having a boy, its the only name at this stage that keeps popping out at me.

So it got me thinking, how popular is it. I know the baby name register all around Australia (and even the US) have had Joshua as a top 5 (usually 1, 2 or 3 though) for the last 15 years, but I'm having trouble finding any Joshua's I actually know. The only one I can think of is a boy I went to school with (and thats over 12 years ago) and a few that I occassionally see at work (and I see ALOT of customers names in my job, probably at least 100 a da, but rarely a Joshua).

So I'm just wondering how many Joshua's do you know of? Is it really as popular as its suppose to be?

Thank you for your help...I'm sure I'll be back with other opinions on names