In 2025, 48 US girls were named Joi, making it the 3,271st most common girls’ name of the year, down 700 places from #2,571 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 69 girls named Joi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #915, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 164. For comparison, it was #2,180 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joi in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 6,095 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,114 babies named Joi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 702 US girls were named Joi; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jo (180,911 babies since 1880), Joy (143,324 babies since 1880), Joe (464,574 babies since 1880) and Joey (61,402 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Juhi are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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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.