Joey
About 61,402 American babies have been named Joey since 1915, most of them around 1962. In 2025 it ranked 874th. About 54,000 Joeys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joey boys named Joey
Girls and boys called Joey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 7,644 girls and 53,758 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 146 to 274.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 97 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 61,402
- Estimated living today
- 54,000
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 200th
- Rank in 2025
- 874th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 7,644 / 53,758
How old the living Joeys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 61,402 babies given the name since 1915, about 54,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 8,300 of them are children and 6,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Joeys
- Joey King (born 1999)American actress
- Joey Barton (born 1982)English professional football manager and former player
- Joey Jordison (1975–2021)American musician
- Joey Ramone (1951–2001)American punk rock singer
- Joey Lauren Adams (born 1968)American actress
- Joey Veerman (born 1998)Dutch association football player
- Joey Tempest (born 1963)Swedish singer
- Joey O'Brien (born 1986)Irish footballer and manager
People named Joey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joey is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.2×), Louisiana (2.0×), Hawaii (2.0×), South Carolina (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Joey peaked:
Joey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Joey | 7,052 | 97th |
| France boys | Joey | 3,470 | 281st |
| Ireland boys | Joey | 1,017 | 79th |
| Scotland boys | Joey | 756 | 85th |
| France girls | Joey | 620 | 1,025th |
| Belgium boys | Joey | 617 | 217th |
| Switzerland boys | Joey | 252 | 338th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Joey | 246 | 72nd |
| England and Wales girls | Joey | 137 | 2,085th |
| Switzerland girls | Joey | 26 | 1,130th |
| Belgium girls | Joey | 18 | 897th |
| Poland boys | Joey | 4 birth registrations | 736th |
| Ireland girls | Joey | 3 | 896th |
| Scotland girls | Joey | 3 | 783rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joey: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Joey | 113 | 0.009% | 383rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Joey | 5 | 0.000% | 1,233rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Joey | 122 | 0.028% | 204th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Joey | 19 | 0.004% | 406th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Joey | 17 | 0.026% | 109th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Joey | 2 | 0.003% | 175th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joey is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.04% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Joey: rank by region
In 2024, Joey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Joey | 632 | 8 |
In 2021, Joey was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Joey | 8 | 1 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Joey appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (199th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Joey by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 578th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Joey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Joey | 10,754 | 11,885 |
| the Netherlands girls | Joey | 65 | 103 |
| Finland boys | Joey | 8 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Joey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.