Jo

girls:

179k births since 1881

#219 (96th percentile)

boys:

1.8k births since 1911

#2916 (36th percentile)

overall:

180.8k births since 1881

#426 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jo".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
178,986
Peak Births
8,052
Peak Year
1954
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
92.8%
Current Percentile
4.3%
Peak Rank
#51
Current Rank
#906
Female statistics
Total Births
1,835
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
1930
First Recorded
1911
Peak Percentile
5.7%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#296
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jo

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jo. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 95.6% confident that Jo is pronounced as joh. The next most likely pronunciation is joh, at 4.4% confidence.

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95.6%
1
4.4%
joh (1 syllable)
Verified
95.6% confidence
JH OW1
joh (1 syllable)
4.4% confidence
JH OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jo. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jo, please vote using the thumbs up button.

johl (1 syllable)
7 names 282.2k births
JH OW1 L
JOH-uh (2 syllables)
6 names 3.4k births
JH OW1 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.