girls:
469 births since 1968
#5247 (8th percentile)
overall:
469 births since 1968
#7270 (6th percentile)
The name Joia is the #7,270 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 469 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 6.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,247 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 469 births since 1968.
Joia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Joia is available in 45 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Joia reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #773) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Joia ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 24.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joia".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Joia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Joia is pronounced as JOY-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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