Joë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Joë is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Diminutive form of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias.
- CUCuba≈1 in 416(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 490
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 589
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #227 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 643 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416 (inferred from the name graph)
275,876 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Joe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)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.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #97 | 275,876 | 1 in 1.2K | 272K | Joe | 643 |
| GB United Kingdom | #159 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 807 | 11 | Joe | 365 |
| CA Canada | #92 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | 5 | Joe | 293 |
| PH Philippines | #356 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Joe | 144 |
| IT Italy | #285 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Joe | 105 |
| CU Cuba | #1 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | — | Joe | 25 |
| HK Hong Kong | #184 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Joe | 99 |
| IE Ireland | #67 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 490 | — | Joe | 153 |
| SG Singapore | #62 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 769 | — | Joe | 122 |
275,876 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Joë is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In li, yes; yea, yeah, aye
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joë mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive form of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Joë a male or female name?
- Joë is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Joë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 276 thousand people named Joë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joe.
- How common is the name Joë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275,876 people named Joë in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Joë compared with other names?
- In the United States, Joë is the 97th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joë” — the 97th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.