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Joen

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Danish and Swedish origin

Joen has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2014, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.

Babies named Joen, 2023

1 in 663,000

Joen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Joen over time

In 2023, Joen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Joen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Danish and Swedish origin

Danish and Swedish

What Joen means

Joen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Joen is used in English. Its origins include Danish and Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 boys were recorded with the name Joen between 2008 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2014; its best national rank was #7,269 in 2014.

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Joen between 1931 and 1959. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1932; its best national rank was #3,623 in 1934.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Joen?

Joen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joen 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joens were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 67.6% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Joen 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 2014 (11)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,269
2014

Spellings of Joen

Joen is not the most common spelling — John is, with 61.0% against Joen'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.

Joen around the world

Where Joen 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
    2009–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1990–2010
    #3,428
    in 2010

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.

Joen 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
#7,269
2014
Peak year
2014
11 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,623
1934
Peak year
1932
7 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1959
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joen

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

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Sibling names for Joen

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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