Joa
#8,552 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joa has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #8,552 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.
Babies named Joa, 2025
1 in 368,000
Joa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Joa over time
In 2025, Joa went to 36% girls and 64% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Joa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,552
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joa was born before 2024 — so the typical Joa is around 1 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 83.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 62
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 83.9% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Joa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −4,298
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,689
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 36.0%
- Peak was 2024 (25)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 126.9% average annual change
Joa around the world
Where Joa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2023–2023#4,108in 2023
- France2006–2025#3,671in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Joa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Joa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.