Joei
Joei was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 447 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joei?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,202, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2003, the peak
Joei peaked in 2003, when 20 girls were given it, #5,905 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,202 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,879 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,857 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,072 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,755 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,125 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,434 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,336 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,401 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,824 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,824 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,963 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,699 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,366 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,313 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,897 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,953 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,644 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,586 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,905 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,604 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,492 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,958 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,784 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,676 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,372 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,513 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,352 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,395 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,057 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,767 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,504 | 6.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,102 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,410 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,761 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,826 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,524 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,867 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,985 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,158 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,458 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,290 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,928 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,753 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,807 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,851 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,203 | 5.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,478 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joei, and how old are they?
An estimated 436 Americans named Joei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Joei (398 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,752 babies since 1880, Joei is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 969 babies recorded by SSA was a Joei (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Joei
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 Joei and names like it
- Compare Joei and JoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoei peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joei since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Joei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.