girls:
11.3k births since 1880
#1479 (74th percentile)
boys:
452.7k births since 1880
#69 (99th percentile)
overall:
464k births since 1880
#145 (98th percentile)
The name Joe is the #145 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 464,039 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #69 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 452,721 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,479 (74.1% percentile) for all time with 11,318 births since 1880.
Joe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Joe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Joe reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 95.8% percentile (ranked #23) with 7,537 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 7,537 births per million (ranked 95.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1962, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Joe ranks #664 for boys (27.1% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Joe reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 37.1% percentile (ranked #357) with 245 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 245 births per million (ranked 37.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joe".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Joe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Joe is pronounced as joh, which has 1 syllables.
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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.
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