Joe

At the 2020 census, 10,128 Americans bore the surname Joe — 3,445th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,128
Rank: 3,445th
How common: 1 in 29,500
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

(diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo.., particularly the male names Joseph and less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Joe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 28.9%
Black, not Hispanic 23.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 21.8%
White, not Hispanic 15.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%

Notable people called Joe

Fat Joe (born 1970)American rapper
Samoa Joe (born 1979)American professional wrestler
Joe (born 1973)American R&B singer
Isaiah Joe (born 1999)American basketball player

People named Joe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Joe has been given to 464,574 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1936. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.