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Joemar

Boys' name

Clipping of Jose Maria

Joemar has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Joemar, 2008

1 in 655,000

Joemar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joemar: meaning, origin, and history

Clipping of Jose Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joemar means

Joemar is a clipping of Jose Maria.

Origin, language, and formation

Joemar is used in Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jose Maria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Joemar is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒomaɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Joemar between 1978 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,848 in 1997.

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.

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How common is Joemar?

Joemar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joemar 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 2008 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joemar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joemars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joemar was born before 1997 — so the typical Joemar is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Joemar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (10)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,848
1997

Spellings of Joemar

Joemar is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 77.4% against Joemar's 0.03%.

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.

Joemar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,848
1997
Peak year
1997
10 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joemar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Joemar

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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