Jojo

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hoʊhoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jojo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 123K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 3.9K

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)

≈60,000 people, est.

Sources
318 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Jõjõ in DZ Algeria.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Fante/Ashanti (Ghana): Europeanized form of Kojo/Kwadjo, for males born on Monday.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Jojo is read(measured from records)

Jojo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English29%

    A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jojo in Spanish.

  • Arabic17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jojo in Arabic.

  • French11%

    cool, nice, good

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Le personnage de l’affreux Jojo, enfant turbulent et mal élevé, a été créé par le dessinateur Ami.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

  • Hindi5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jojo in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jojo 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.

Where Jojo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈60,000 est.≈1 in 23K—Jojo24
PH Philippines≈28,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K27KJojo98
UG Uganda≈5,100 est.≈1 in 8.5Klisted—10
SY Syria≈5,000 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Jojo8
DZ Algeria≈4,700 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Jõjõ7
US United States2,6951 in 123K1.6KJojo318
SG Singapore≈370 est.≈1 in 17K—Jojo39

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jojo is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jo-Jo, Jójó, Jojó, Jojô, Jôjô

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Jo-Jo, Jòjò, Jöjö

  • Arabic given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Jöjö, Jójó, Jôjô, Jójò, Jõjõ

  • French given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Philippines, United States

    Also written Jo-Jo, Jőjõ, Jôjo, Jôjô, Jójó

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, China, United States

    Also written 'Jojo, Jo-Jo, Jöjö, Jôjô, Jõjo

  • Chinese given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, United States

    Also written Jo-Jo, Jőjő, Jôjö, Jojò, Jojo ゙

  • Japanese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Philippines, Hong Kong

    Also written Jo-Jo, Jōjō

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jojo 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.

  • Fante/Ashanti (Ghana): Europeanized form of Kojo/Kwadjo, for males born on Monday.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • This one is a story teller

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • Born on Monday

    as a nameThe book of African names

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)

19401960198020002020Jojo Chintoh, b. 1944Jojo Cobbinah, b. 1948JoJo Starbuck, b. 1951Jojo Mayer, b. 1963JoJo Kiss, b. 1996Jojo Macari, b. 1996Jojo Fleites, b. 1999Jojo Scarlotta, b. 1999Jojo Regina, b. 2011

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)

InformalHi Jojo,

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 50 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Jojo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020275#75,616
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010145#119,508
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000127#124,872
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Jojo come from?
Fante/Ashanti (Ghana): Europeanized form of Kojo/Kwadjo, for males born on Monday. Recorded by African Names.
What does the name Jojo mean?
In English, A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.
Is Jojo a male or female name?
Jojo 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 Jojo?
A machine transcription gives /hoʊhoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Jojo?
In the etymology graph, Joe, Juana and Joanne are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joan and Jo.
How common is the name Jojo?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,695 people named Jojo in 2020, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
In which country does Jojo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Jojo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jojo.

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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, “Jojo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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