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Joey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 274 in 2025. Its best rank was #194 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #194 in 1976; #877 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Joey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#877 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #194.
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Joey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 274 boys in 2025. Peak: #194 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 1,529 (1962).
In 2025, 274 US boys were named Joey, making it the 877th most common boys’ name of the year, up 13 places from #890 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 267 boys named Joey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #194, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,529, in 1962. For comparison, it was #758 in 2015 and #491 in 1950.
In 2025, 146 US girls were named Joey, making it the 1,474th most common girls’ name of the year, down 94 places from #1,380 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 164 girls named Joey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #658, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 232. For comparison, it was #2,067 in 2015 and #1,853 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joey in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 61,402 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 12,855 babies named Joey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,853 US boys were named Joey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 355. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,234 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joey ranked highest in California in 2025, at #496 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), Joy (143,324 babies since 1880), Joie (3,210 babies since 1880) and Jo (180,911 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Joe.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
Joey is listed as a nickname for Joe, Joseph, Josephine.
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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 64 | #496 | #424 |
| Utah | 7 | #586 | — |
| Florida | 22 | #716 | #855 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #726 | #770 |
| Ohio | 12 | #729 | #808 |
| Texas | 37 | #738 | #637 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #843 | — |
| New York | 16 | #866 | #921 |
| Arizona | 6 | #887 | #538 |
| Washington | 6 | #945 | #661 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #976 | #526 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,084 | #1,216 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,153 | #1,052 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,184 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,474 | 274 | #877 |
| 2024 | 164 | #1,380 | 267 | #890 |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,351 | 258 | #903 |
| 2022 | 161 | #1,414 | 264 | #892 |
| 2021 | 178 | #1,288 | 252 | #911 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,429 | 253 | #895 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,609 | 306 | #772 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,456 | 323 | #739 |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,519 | 301 | #780 |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,491 | 355 | #696 |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,067 | 318 | #758 |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,750 | 370 | #684 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,469 | 382 | #643 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,271 | 404 | #609 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,133 | 408 | #605 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,969 | 405 | #612 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,067 | 408 | #616 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,907 | 448 | #576 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,649 | 470 | #547 |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,666 | 474 | #532 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,457 | 482 | #510 |
| 2004 | 121 | #1,609 | 508 | #489 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,470 | 496 | #494 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,924 | 448 | #509 |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,854 | 435 | #519 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,066 | 481 | #485 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,161 | 449 | #491 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,071 | 403 | #517 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,373 | 441 | #486 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,572 | 470 | #461 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,036 | 507 | #450 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,426 | 554 | #412 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,399 | 653 | #362 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,413 | 575 | #400 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,201 | 651 | #363 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,666 | 685 | #352 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,685 | 605 | #370 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,344 | 619 | #343 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,590 | 720 | #299 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,284 | 655 | #310 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,190 | 763 | #273 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,846 | 742 | #280 |
| 1983 | 80 | #1,457 | 791 | #261 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,592 | 1,001 | #232 |
| 1981 | 101 | #1,274 | 1,072 | #225 |
| 1980 | 126 | #1,100 | 1,154 | #212 |
| 1979 | 173 | #882 | 1,095 | #215 |
| 1978 | 148 | #950 | 1,072 | #207 |
| 1977 | 197 | #766 | 1,213 | #195 |
| 1976 | 203 | #721 | 1,160 | #194 |
| 1975 | 224 | #673 | 840 | #249 |
| 1974 | 232 | #658 | 855 | #239 |
| 1973 | 208 | #708 | 872 | #240 |
| 1972 | 185 | #754 | 912 | #235 |
| 1971 | 167 | #829 | 1,070 | #219 |
| 1970 | 198 | #745 | 1,137 | #217 |
| 1969 | 142 | #885 | 1,191 | #210 |
| 1968 | 145 | #850 | 1,111 | #210 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,166 | 1,068 | #210 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,500 | 1,032 | #217 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,371 | 1,120 | #214 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,085 | 1,362 | #203 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,008 | 1,382 | #207 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,744 | 1,529 | #200 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,216 | 1,257 | #220 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,540 | 1,206 | #229 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,256 | 1,121 | #240 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,711 | 1,067 | #238 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,646 | 1,041 | #237 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,023 | 946 | #239 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,137 | 693 | #271 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,921 | 500 | #324 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,948 | 328 | #386 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,615 | 241 | #455 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,939 | 196 | #482 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,853 | 188 | #491 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,670 | 154 | #538 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,647 | 153 | #537 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,823 | 174 | #516 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,428 | 121 | #584 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,907 | 120 | #546 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,938 | 137 | #520 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,490 | 131 | #547 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,830 | 96 | #655 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,391 | 52 | #882 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,681 | 65 | #768 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,018 | 49 | #897 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,659 | 31 | #1,185 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,631 | 38 | #1,044 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,442 | 31 | #1,196 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,037 | 35 | #1,113 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,645 | 26 | #1,343 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,212 | 22 | #1,479 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,565 | 28 | #1,309 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,673 | 24 | #1,440 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,887 | 24 | #1,515 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,318 | 16 | #1,967 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,965 | 19 | #1,796 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,198 | 14 | #2,243 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,563 | 15 | #2,134 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,853 | 11 | #2,672 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,515 | 14 | #2,297 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,794 | 5 | #4,546 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,716 | 12 | #2,565 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,039 | 8 | #3,352 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,632 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,039 | 8 | #3,257 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,825 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,624 |
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).