girls:
7.3k births since 1918
#1904 (67th percentile)
boys:
53.2k births since 1915
#478 (90th percentile)
overall:
60.5k births since 1915
#956 (88th percentile)
The name Joey is the #956 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 60,532 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 87.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #478 (89.6% percentile) for all time with 53,203 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #1,904 (66.7% percentile) for all time with 7,329 births since 1918.
Joey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Joey is available in 108 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 105 years for girls). 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 Joey has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 60.5% of babies named Joey were boys.
For boys, Joey reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 72.1% percentile (ranked #189) with 710 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 726 births per million (ranked 70.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Joey ranks #665 for boys (27.0% percentile) with 138 births per million, which is 19.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Joey reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 29.7% percentile (ranked #525) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 148 births per million (ranked 29.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Joey ranks #787 for girls (16.9% percentile) with 94 births per million, which is 63.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joey".
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