Joji
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123Kas Jojo
- TZTanzania≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Joji itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joji 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 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 27K | Joji | 48 |
| US United States | 2,695as Jojo | 1 in 123K | 1.6K | Joji | 141 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Joji | 8 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Joji | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 612K | listed | Joji | 16 |
| SE Sweden | 77as Jojo | 1 in 133K | 77 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 74 | 1 in 2.9M | 108 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Joji | 20 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jōji Okab. 1902JPJapanese actor
- Jōji Yanamib. 1931JPJapanese actor, voice actor and narrator (1931–2021)
- George Yanagib. 1948JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer-songwriter (1948-2011)
- Jōji Mayamab. 1949JPJapanese actor (1949-)
- George Yamamotob. 1950JPnot in their usual nameJapanese enka singer
- Jouji Nakatab. 1954JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actor
- Screaming Mad Georgeb. 1956JPnot in their usual nameJapanese-American artist and director
- Jōji Yamamotob. 1962JPJapanese politician
- Joji Hattorib. 1969JPJapanese violinist and conductor
- Joji Katob. 1985JPJapanese speed skater
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 344 | #20,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 163 | #20,403 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 108 | #17,678 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #50,911 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 51 | #47,835 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 47 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Joji a male or female name?
- Joji is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Joji?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Joji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Joji in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joji.
- How common is the name Joji?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 74 people named Joji in 2022, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joji?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jojiThe 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, “Joji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.