Joe

What Joe means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Joe yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1936, with 8,023 babies; 230 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Joe?

US: Falling: down from #597 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #206 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1907, when 1,177 boys got the name (#23 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 7,426 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,230 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TX (0.34 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.26 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.24 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Joe is #991 in the US and #687 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Joe were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jay809 US · 56 E&W
• Joey274 US · 324 E&W
• Jai122 US · 39 E&W
• Joao121 US · 25 E&W
• Joah74 US · 11 E&W
• Jae42 US
• Jah35 US
• Joy27 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Joe

Boys

• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• David#35“beloved”^*
• Joshua#66“to save”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Matthew#32“gift of the Lord”^*

For a sister

• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Stephanie#557Feminine form of Stephen, meaning “crown, wreath”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Joe’s. Rank is US 2025.