Joetta
Joetta was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,969 among girls’ names; 3,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Joetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 56 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joetta?
#15,969 among girls’ names, 2025
Joetta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,969 in 2025.
111 babies in 1954, the peak
Joetta peaked in 1954, when 111 girls were given it, #912 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,969 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,738 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,193 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,132 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,741 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,469 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,688 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,121 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,917 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,808 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | #12,649 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,487 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,199 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,367 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,398 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,471 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,479 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,888 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,141 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,534 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,309 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,931 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,505 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,057 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,339 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,556 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,353 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,340 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,473 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,653 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,590 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,975 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,033 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,896 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,376 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,462 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,922 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,004 | 26.3 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,783 | 30.1 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,937 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,638 | 32.0 |
| 1968 | 61 | #1,457 | 37.2 |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,499 | 33.9 |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,329 | 39.6 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,450 | 32.9 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,507 | 30.1 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,343 | 35.3 |
| 1962 | 75 | #1,280 | 38.1 |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,383 | 32.7 |
| 1960 | 81 | #1,212 | 40.1 |
| 1959 | 103 | #1,052 | 50.9 |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,046 | 49.7 |
| 1957 | 103 | #1,035 | 50.4 |
| 1956 | 98 | #1,034 | 48.8 |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,036 | 48.1 |
| 1954 | 111 | #912 | 57.2 |
| 1953 | 93 | #997 | 49.4 |
| 1952 | 76 | #1,082 | 41.0 |
| 1951 | 95 | #953 | 52.8 |
| 1950 | 79 | #1,029 | 46.1 |
| 1949 | 90 | #936 | 52.6 |
| 1948 | 85 | #940 | 50.1 |
| 1947 | 68 | #1,078 | 38.4 |
| 1946 | 64 | #1,063 | 40.7 |
| 1945 | 61 | #987 | 46.7 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,021 | 44.5 |
| 1943 | 69 | #949 | 49.5 |
| 1942 | 58 | #1,030 | 42.9 |
| 1941 | 58 | #966 | 48.0 |
| 1940 | 54 | #974 | 47.2 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,029 | 43.8 |
| 1938 | 67 | #863 | 60.7 |
| 1937 | 45 | #1,067 | 42.3 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,014 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 51 | #969 | 48.6 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,066 | 41.2 |
| 1933 | 55 | #918 | 54.6 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,153 | 36.5 |
| 1931 | 54 | #946 | 50.7 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,483 | 24.9 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,735 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,864 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,297 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,958 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,232 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,256 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,313 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,831 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,852 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,996 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,324 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,382 | 7.8 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,003 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,011 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joetta, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 3,558 Americans ever recorded as Joetta. The median Joetta alive today is 67 years old; half are between 56 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,707 people named Joetta (2,707 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,699 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 293 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,250 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 193 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 52 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
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).
Where are babies named Joetta born?
The states with the most babies named Joetta are Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Indiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 244 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Indiana | 161 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 143 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 138 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 132 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| West Virginia | 110 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Oklahoma | 81 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Joetta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joetta is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1913 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joetta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,558 babies since 1880, Joetta is the most given (64% 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 Joetta
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 Joetta and names like it
- Compare Joetta and JoetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJoetta peaked in 1954.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Joetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.