Joe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Cuba it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short form of pJoseph.
- 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #227 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 643 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Short form of pJoseph. Variant: Jo. Pet form: Joey.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 810 | — | Joe | 89 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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)
Joe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, nickname for Joseph
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
from a short form of Joseph.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Cho.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
English: short form of JOSEPH . Variant: Jo. Pet form: Joey .
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)
- Joe Louisb. 1914USAmerican boxer (1914-1981)
- Joe DiMaggiob. 1914USAmerican baseball player (1914–1999)
- Joe Ortonb. 1933GBEnglish playwright (1933–1967)
- Joseph Liebermanb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1942–2024)
- Joe Pescib. 1943USAmerican actor
- Joe Frazierb. 1944USAmerican boxer (1944–2011)
- Joe Wrightb. 1972GBBritish film director
- Joe Coleb. 1981GBEnglish association football player (born 1981)
- Joe Anoa'ib. 1985USAmerican professional wrestler
- Joe Keeryb. 1992USAmerican actor and musician (born 1992)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 113 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 272K | #194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #194 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 230 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 29 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 11 | #185 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 5 | #795 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Joe come from?
- Short form of pJoseph. Variant: Jo. Pet form: Joey. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Joe a male or female name?
- Joe 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 Joe?
- In the etymology graph, Jose, Yusuf and Jo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joseph.
- What does the name Joe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short form of pJoseph.
- How common is the name Joe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275,876 people named Joe in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Joe compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Joe is the most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Joe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Joe in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joe.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Joe” — the most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.