girls:
40 births since 1953
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
28 births since 2013
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
68 births since 1953
#7671 (1st percentile)
The name Joa is the #7,671 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 68 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1953. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2013.
Joa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for girls and 2013 for boys). Birth data for Joa is available in 10 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (6 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Joa has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 45.5% of babies named Joa were girls. Interestingly, until around 2013, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1953 to 2012), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (71.8% boys from 2013 to 2023).
For girls, Joa reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #690) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1953, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Joa ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 55.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Joa reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #900) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Joa is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #910 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joa".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Joa is pronounced as JOH-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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