Unisex name · since 1958
Joany
Joany has 59 recorded births since 1958 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1985 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 59
- total births
- 1958–2019
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Joany sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 59 recorded since 1958.
Joany has 59 recorded births among girls since 1958, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1958 to 2019.
- 59 total births
- 1958–2019 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joany's 59 recorded births place it above 54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joany's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Joany's SSA record in two at 1985 and the more recent half accounts for 54% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 46%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1958, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1985 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Joany popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1958–2019
- Peak year (1985)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 62 years of records
Joany popularity over time - boys
5 total births recorded since 2005 (Joany as boys' name)
Joany by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Joany's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Joany births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
32 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 32 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Joany's decade-level peak was the 1980s (32 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1958–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joany: Baby Name Since 1958 - 59 Births, Peak 1985." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joany. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joany draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.