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Joetta

#15,969 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Jo

Joetta has been given to 3,558 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #15,969 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Joetta, 2025

1 in 663,000

Joetta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joetta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joetta means

Joetta is a form of Jo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Joetta is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,558 girls were recorded with the name Joetta between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 1954; its best national rank was #863 in 1938.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,193 in 2020 to #15,969 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 Joetta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,969
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joetta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joetta was born before 1955 — so the typical Joetta is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,240
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Choose a decade

1950s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (952).

Is Joetta 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
−3,231
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,776
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
4.5%
Peak was 1954 (111)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
1938

Spellings of Joetta

Joetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 54.6% against Joetta's 1.1%.

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 Joetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Joetta was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 69,777 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 11,111
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 14,286
  3. 3Indiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Joetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joetta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,776
Best rank ever
#863
1938
Peak year
1954
111 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,558
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Joetta

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

JoellaJoellenBrittaGrettaJoelyJoelleJoelJoetteJoeleneRettaJoeyJoeannArlettaColettaAlettaJettaZettaViolettaJoelynLouettaAnnettaJuliettaJoellyRhetta

Names with a curve like Joetta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Joetta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EvonMickieShirleneLarryRosannKarleneNancieSuzannDelaineMaritaKarleenJacque

Sibling names for Joetta

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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