Joa
About 114 American babies have been named Joa since 1953, most of them around 2024. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 110 Joas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 2.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joa boys named Joa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 114
- Estimated living today
- 110
- Median age today
- 2
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 4,200th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 52 / 62
How old the living Joas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 114 babies given the name since 1953, about 110 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2023 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Joa peaked:
Joa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Joa | 120 | 3,078th |
| Switzerland boys | Joa | 116 | 463rd |
| France girls | Joa | 75 | 4,389th |
| England and Wales boys | Joa | 4 | 4,107th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Joa | 111 | 0.009% | 341st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Joa | 5 | 0.001% | 642nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joa is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Joa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Joa | 423 | 539 |
| Finland girls | Joa | 16 | 24 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Joa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.