Joey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Joseph; also used as a given name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d͡ʒoʊi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 954(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 548 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 954 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 of Joseph; also used as a given name
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Joey, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joey 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #167 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 954 | — | Joey | 149 |
| US United States | #609 | 57,447 | 1 in 5.8K | 51K | Joey | 548 |
| CA Canada | #561 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 9 | Joey | 252 |
| MY Malaysia | #947 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 1.1K | Joey | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | #840 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 50 | Joey | 203 |
| SG Singapore | #224 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Joey | 118 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)
Joey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Pet form of pJoe.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: pet form of JOE .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joey Bishopb. 1918USAmerican entertainer (1918–2007)
- Joey Travoltab. 1950USAmerican actor and singer
- Joey Lauren Adamsb. 1968USAmerican actress
- Joey Slotnickb. 1968USAmerican actor
- Joey McFarlandb. 1972USAmerican film producer
- Clayne Crawfordb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Joey Bartonb. 1982GBEnglish professional football manager and former player (born 1982)
- Joey Ansahb. 1982GBBritish actor, director and martial artist
- Joey Veermanb. 1998NLDutch association football player (born 1998)
- Joey Kingb. 1999USAmerican actress (born 1999)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51K | #823 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #823 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 274 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 146 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 72 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 50 | #103 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 33 | #72 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 32 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 9 | #482 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #938 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Joey a male or female name?
- Joey 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.
- What are other forms of the name Joey?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Joe and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; Jolene and Joetta are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Joey mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Joseph; also used as a given name Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Joey?
- A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒoʊi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Joey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 thousand people named Joey in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joey.
- How common is the name Joey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,447 people named Joey in 2020, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Joey compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Joey is the 167th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joeyThe 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, “Joey” — the 167th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.