Joen
Joen was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 105 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 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 Joen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joen is “a male given name from Swedish or Danish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,106, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2014, the peak
Joen peaked in 2014, when 11 boys were given it, #7,269 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #13,106 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #11,520 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,073 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,412 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,450 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,130 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,269 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 9 | #8,476 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #13,381 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,415 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | #6,672 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,642 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,677 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,623 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,743 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,656 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Joen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 105 Americans recorded as Joen, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joen, and how old are they?
An estimated 83 Americans named Joen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 332 people named Joen (180 women and girls, 152 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times 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.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.