Joey — #888 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Joey

The Social Security Administration has registered 53,474 babies named Joey between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Joey currently holds the #888 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 1,529 babies received it in a single year. Joey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,497 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Joey performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 12,259 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Joey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7,174 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Joey in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Joey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 53,474 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.