Joby
Joby was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,242 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Joby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 27 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joby is “a diminutive of the male given name Joseph.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joby?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,015, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1976, the peak
Joby peaked in 1976, when 45 babies were given it (36 boys, #1,519 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,015 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,198 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,014 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,384 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,403 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,194 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,841 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,492 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,822 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,419 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #6,807 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,542 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,593 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,936 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,953 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,860 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,652 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,852 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,738 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,040 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,852 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,825 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,122 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,070 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,756 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,554 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,862 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,964 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,054 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,497 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,154 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,050 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,227 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,900 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,599 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,769 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,558 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,293 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,396 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,728 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,580 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,722 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,316 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,336 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,105 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,526 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,519 | 22.9 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,726 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,530 | 21.0 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,628 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,485 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,577 | 17.5 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,347 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,748 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,625 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,996 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,737 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,790 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,157 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,678 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,941 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,830 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,477 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,350 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,721 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,262 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,873 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,692 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,296 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,263 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,552 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,897 | 4.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,226 | 3.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,728 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,242 Americans recorded as Joby, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joby, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,242 Americans ever recorded as Joby. The median Joby alive today is 43 years old; half are between 27 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,364 people named Joby (212 women and girls, 1,152 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 277 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 225 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,075 babies since 1880, Joby is the second most given (40% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joby
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joby and names like it
- Compare Joby and JobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJoby peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joby since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Joby.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Joby alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.