Joi
Joi was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,271 among girls’ names; 6,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,820 Americans named Joi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joi?
#3,271 among girls’ names, 2025
Joi fell from #2,180 in 2015 to #3,271 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 29.9 per million.
164 babies in 1981, the peak
Joi peaked in 1981, when 164 girls were given it, #915 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,271 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,571 | 42.6 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,455 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,672 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,620 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,360 | 46.4 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,297 | 47.1 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,260 | 47.6 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,416 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,528 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,180 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,121 | 50.9 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,245 | 47.3 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,325 | 46.0 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,601 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,853 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,215 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,113 | 50.8 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,203 | 46.8 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,279 | 44.2 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,972 | 52.5 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,862 | 55.5 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,806 | 56.9 |
| 2002 | 116 | #1,599 | 64.6 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,564 | 66.1 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,793 | 53.4 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,833 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,570 | 59.4 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,524 | 60.9 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,900 | 43.4 |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,370 | 68.2 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,467 | 60.5 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,780 | 45.3 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,786 | 43.9 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,780 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,798 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,671 | 44.5 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,427 | 54.5 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,341 | 58.7 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,499 | 48.4 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,325 | 58.1 |
| 1984 | 110 | #1,195 | 65.3 |
| 1983 | 101 | #1,248 | 60.5 |
| 1982 | 138 | #1,046 | 81.5 |
| 1981 | 164 | #915 | 98.3 |
| 1980 | 137 | #1,044 | 82.5 |
| 1979 | 119 | #1,130 | 74.1 |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,078 | 79.6 |
| 1977 | 122 | #1,068 | 79.6 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,453 | 49.1 |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,337 | 55.6 |
| 1974 | 91 | #1,213 | 62.0 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,424 | 47.3 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,641 | 36.2 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,552 | 37.9 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,535 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 78 | #1,271 | 46.2 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,355 | 41.5 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,309 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 85 | #1,154 | 50.2 |
| 1965 | 61 | #1,415 | 34.6 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,618 | 26.4 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,585 | 26.5 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,680 | 23.4 |
| 1961 | 77 | #1,262 | 38.1 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,142 | 45.0 |
| 1959 | 84 | #1,161 | 41.5 |
| 1958 | 78 | #1,205 | 38.8 |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,309 | 32.3 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,604 | 21.9 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,304 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,108 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,386 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,177 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,109 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,946 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,921 | 3.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,877 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,990 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,915 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joi, and how old are they?
5,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,095 Americans ever recorded as Joi. The median Joi alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 5,086 people named Joi (5,003 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,518 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 541 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 957 |
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 Joi born?
The states with the most babies named Joi are California, Georgia and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 521 | #3,301 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 419 | #1,642 | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 351 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 334 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 318 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 255 | #2,762 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 221 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 220 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 121 | #903 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 120 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Joi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joi is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1942 it was given 2.4 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 Joi 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,752 babies since 1880, Joi is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 969 babies (5.0%), again the third most given.
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 Joi
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 Joi and names like it
- Compare Joi and JoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJoi peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joi since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Joi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Joi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.