Yehoshua is a rare Hebrew surname

Surname

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 that is presumably derived directly from the English translation of , which means roughly "YHWH rescues" or "YHWH is salvation". "Yehoshua" was also the Hebrew name for Jesus

Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...

 and Joshua

Joshua

Joshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...

 and has been used as a masculine given name

Given name

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This surname is sufficiently rare to apparently not appear in the United States Census of 1990

United States Census, 1990

The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 Census....

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This surname is shared by several notable people:

• A. B. Yehoshua
  A. B. Yehoshua
  Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.-Biography:...
  
  (born 1936), Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
• Itzhak Yehoshua (born 1962), Chief Rabbi of the Bukharian Jews in the United States