Joi
Joi reached its high-water mark in 1981 at number 912, and has been recorded 6,095 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,249th. About 5,800 Jois are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,095
- Estimated living today
- 5,800
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 912th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,249th
- First recorded
- 1942
How old the living Jois are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,095 babies given the name since 1942, about 5,800 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 360 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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 Jois
- Joi Ito (born 1966)Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist
People named Joi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joi is most concentrated in Georgia (4.4×), Michigan (2.6×), Maryland (2.4×), Illinois (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Joi peaked:
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Joi 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.