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Joi

#3,271 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Joy

Joi has been given to 6,095 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #3,271 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Joi, 2025

1 in 69,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joi means

Joi is a variant of Joy.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,095 girls were recorded with the name Joi between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1981; its best national rank was #915 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,360 in 2020 to #3,271 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,180 in 2015 to #3,271 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 Joi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,271
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joi 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jois were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joi was born before 1990 — so the typical Joi is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,066
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,114).

Is Joi 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
−700
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−911
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,091
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.3%
Peak was 1981 (164)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#915
1981

Where Joi is used

Across 2016–2025, Joi was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 25,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,882
  2. 2Maryland1 in 7,692
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 14,286
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 20,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 20,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 33,333

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.

Notable people named Joi

People whose public names include Joi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Joi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joi. Linked forms have their own page here.

Joy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,271
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 911
Best rank ever
#915
1981
Peak year
1981
164 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,095
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Joi

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

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Names with a curve like Joi

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

TamarCamiHolleySusannahBrigidAdriaElanaAlisiaSeptemberRachellMirnaElicia

Sibling names for Joi

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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