Boys' name · since 1949
Joes
12 babies named Joes in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 12
- total births
- 1949–1989
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
12 boys have been named Joes since 1949, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Joes has 12 recorded births among boys since 1949, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1949 to 1989.
- 12 total births
- 1949–1989 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joes's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joes's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Joes splits its recorded history at 1989: 42% of all births land in the more recent half, 58% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1989 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1949 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Joes popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1949–1989
- Peak year (1949)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Joes by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Joes's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Joes births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
7 births
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
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What to do with Joes's data
- Joes's usage has stayed within range of its 1940s decade-level peak (7 total births) through the 1980s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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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, 1949–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joes: Baby Name Since 1949 - 12 Births, Peak 1949." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joes. 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 Joes 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.