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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Joe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joe” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joe” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joe” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joe” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joe” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joe” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 736 0.003652896 5 731 -99%
1881 649 0.003368139 10 639 -97%
1882 754 0.003403556 15 739 -96%
1883 623 0.002871682 16 607 -95%
1884 771 0.003166832 12 759 -97%
1885 693 0.002877262 12 681 -97%
1886 774 0.003031537 15 759 -96%
1887 695 0.002809307 10 685 -97%
1888 813 0.00271476 24 789 -94%
1889 727 0.002516041 18 709 -95%
1890 702 0.002329123 20 682 -94%
1891 605 0.002110418 21 584 -93%
1892 830 0.00248225 11 819 -97%
1893 745 0.002290736 24 721 -94%
1894 764 0.00225575 23 741 -94%
1895 790 0.002250584 27 763 -93%
1896 779 0.002179119 12 767 -97%
1897 822 0.00236917 24 798 -94%
1898 847 0.002220445 20 827 -95%
1899 798 0.002352359 18 780 -95%
1900 1212 0.00269179 33 1179 -95%
1901 769 0.002223752 13 756 -97%
1902 985 0.002546977 30 955 -94%
1903 920 0.002413431 25 895 -95%
1904 976 0.002418925 17 959 -97%
1905 1052 0.002481589 28 1024 -95%
1906 1062 0.002478696 42 1020 -92%
1907 1207 0.002593524 30 1177 -95%
1908 1241 0.002539655 32 1209 -95%
1909 1335 0.00261138 43 1292 -94%
1910 1595 0.002700136 42 1553 -95%
1911 1494 0.002318875 45 1449 -94%
1912 2580 0.002611172 65 2515 -95%
1913 2868 0.002522183 62 2806 -96%
1914 3789 0.002675198 77 3712 -96%
1915 4762 0.002598741 114 4648 -95%
1916 5012 0.002590962 101 4911 -96%
1917 5239 0.002610689 97 5142 -96%
1918 5919 0.002726254 114 5805 -96%
1919 5839 0.002766977 130 5709 -96%
1920 6205 0.002742368 134 6071 -96%
1921 6341 0.002716207 137 6204 -96%
1922 6238 0.002725022 149 6089 -95%
1923 6146 0.002669295 143 6003 -95%
1924 6195 0.002601182 151 6044 -95%
1925 6265 0.002685036 158 6107 -95%
1926 6550 0.002852906 212 6338 -94%
1927 6773 0.002920205 231 6542 -93%
1928 6894 0.003049177 212 6682 -94%
1929 6814 0.003108348 218 6596 -94%
1930 7122 0.003203364 249 6873 -93%
1931 6684 0.00317622 228 6456 -93%
1932 6934 0.003284246 244 6690 -93%
1933 6662 0.003331921 250 6412 -92%
1934 7354 0.003540997 265 7089 -93%
1935 7778 0.003721709 224 7554 -94%
1936 8266 0.003978672 243 8023 -94%
1937 7970 0.003740608 226 7744 -94%
1938 7678 0.003470166 239 7439 -94%
1939 7437 0.003375174 249 7188 -93%
1940 7433 0.003227971 217 7216 -94%
1941 7384 0.00303067 226 7158 -94%
1942 7619 0.002788985 236 7383 -94%
1943 7537 0.002670272 230 7307 -94%
1944 7264 0.002700293 202 7062 -94%
1945 6819 0.002570385 193 6626 -94%
1946 7755 0.002426997 220 7535 -94%
1947 8131 0.002257155 227 7904 -94%
1948 7490 0.002169431 203 7287 -95%
1949 6752 0.001937571 217 6535 -94%
1950 6237 0.001780292 204 6033 -93%
1951 6021 0.001634481 196 5825 -93%
1952 6065 0.001596891 174 5891 -94%
1953 5988 0.001553854 191 5797 -94%
1954 6089 0.001529627 215 5874 -93%
1955 6036 0.001503332 183 5853 -94%
1956 6322 0.001533336 196 6126 -94%
1957 6938 0.001651062 172 6766 -95%
1958 7226 0.001747984 159 7067 -96%
1959 7542 0.001813856 154 7388 -96%
1960 7442 0.001791606 129 7313 -97%
1961 7167 0.001730198 109 7058 -97%
1962 6894 0.001708393 102 6792 -97%
1963 6471 0.001634834 94 6377 -97%
1964 5911 0.001520473 90 5821 -97%
1965 4911 0.001354591 77 4834 -97%
1966 4425 0.001273141 92 4333 -96%
1967 3779 0.001113141 62 3717 -97%
1968 3603 0.001066477 80 3523 -96%
1969 3686 0.001060621 69 3617 -96%
1970 3637 0.001008453 68 3569 -96%
1971 3206 0.000934053 56 3150 -97%
1972 2879 0.000916006 54 2825 -96%
1973 2567 0.000850877 45 2522 -96%
1974 2394 0.0007875 48 2346 -96%
1975 2278 0.000754456 39 2239 -97%
1976 2204 0.000726362 34 2170 -97%
1977 2165 0.000681569 43 2122 -96%
1978 2078 0.000654721 39 2039 -96%
1979 1993 0.000599038 28 1965 -97%
1980 2010 0.000583538 20 1990 -98%
1981 1894 0.000547498 34 1860 -96%
1982 1891 0.000539059 19 1872 -98%
1983 1634 0.000471799 20 1614 -98%
1984 1614 0.000462629 22 1592 -97%
1985 1614 0.000452214 24 1590 -97%
1986 1560 0.000438562 23 1537 -97%
1987 1508 0.000418237 20 1488 -97%
1988 1492 0.000403784 20 1472 -97%
1989 1510 0.000392774 17 1493 -98%
1990 1470 0.000371919 11 1459 -99%
1991 1474 0.000378408 10 1464 -99%
1992 1403 0.000365243 10 1393 -99%
1993 1262 0.000334723 7 1255 -99%
1994 1209 0.000325205 6 1203 -99%
1995 1088 0.000297093 10 1078 -98%
1996 1070 0.000293376 11 1059 -98%
1997 1019 0.000281045 6 1013 -99%
1998 1016 0.000276222 5 1011 -99%
1999 972 0.000263139 972 -100%
2000 919 0.000243128 919 -100%
2001 971 0.000259391 6 965 -99%
2002 922 0.000246637 922 -100%
2003 899 0.000236435 899 -100%
2004 823 0.000215393 823 -100%
2005 799 0.000207811 799 -100%
2006 814 0.000205754 814 -100%
2007 737 0.000184357 5 732 -99%
2008 724 0.000184193 724 -100%
2009 606 0.000158631 606 -100%
2010 592 0.000160184 592 -100%
2011 536 0.000146536 536 -100%
2012 498 0.000136164 498 -100%
2013 476 0.000130566 476 -100%
2014 490 0.000132205 490 -100%
2015 460 0.000124294 460 -100%
2016 434 0.000118298 434 -100%
2017 365 0.000102064 365 -100%
2018 347 0.000098695 347 -100%
2019 350 0.000100837 350 -100%
2020 337 0.000100881 337 -100%
2021 310 0.000091501 310 -100%
2022 262 0.000077443 262 -100%
2023 256 0.000077313 256 -100%
2024 272 0.000081718 272 -100%

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