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Joah

#2,028 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is brother

Joah has been given to 1,246 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,028 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Joah, 2025

1 in 44,800

Joah over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is brother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joah means

Joah means “Yahweh is brother”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,241 boys were recorded with the name Joah between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,959 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,817 in 2020 to #2,028 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,285 in 2015 to #2,028 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Joah between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #15,961 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Joah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,800
74 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,028
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,054 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joah was born before 2015 — so the typical Joah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,241
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (487).

Is Joah 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
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+789
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+257
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.7%
Peak was 2023 (79)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,959
2023

Spellings of Joah

Joah is not the most common spelling — John is, with 62.1% against Joah's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Joah is used

Across 1910–2025, Joah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 262,653 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joah around the world

Where Joah 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 & Wales
    2005–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #3,609
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,028
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 789
Best rank ever
#1,959
2023
Peak year
2023
79 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,241
Count in 2025
74

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,961
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#15,961
2025
Peak year
2025
5 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Joah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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