Meaning not yet researched.
Joah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,960 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,960 in 2023; #2,028 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Joah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,028 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,960.
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Joah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,960 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 79 (2023).
In 2025, 74 US boys were named Joah, making it the 2,028th most common boys’ name of the year, up 80 places from #2,108 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 71 boys named Joah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,960, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,286 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 7 babies. In all, 1,246 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 487 babies named Joah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 576 US boys were named Joah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,082 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joah ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,159 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joe (464,574 babies since 1880), Jo (180,911 babies since 1880), Joy (143,324 babies since 1880) and Joey (61,402 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joahua are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joahua (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Joah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,159 | #1,818 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,602 | #2,014 |
| New York | 6 | #1,654 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,911 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,965 | 74 | #2,028 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,108 |
| 2023 | — | — | 79 | #1,960 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,690 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,396 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,818 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,443 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,594 |
| 2017 | — | — | 50 | #2,547 |
| 2016 | — | — | 49 | #2,571 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,286 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,218 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,028 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,981 |
| 2011 | — | — | 50 | #2,488 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,982 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,925 |
| 2008 | — | — | 32 | #3,457 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,893 |
| 2006 | — | — | 32 | #3,348 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,280 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,797 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,572 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,106 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,373 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,906 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,257 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,293 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,658 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,412 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,949 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,318 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,208 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,847 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,754 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,741 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,260 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,839 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).