How Many People Are Named Joi?

5,830

people named Joi are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 58,625 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,095 babies named Joi in Social Security records from 1942 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,377

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,884

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Peak Year

1981

164 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: JOI
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of JOY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Joi in English. Counting Joi and these spellings together, about 114,565 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Joi in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Joi alive today is about 34 years old, and 46% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 19 and 48 in 2025.

Under 30 2,519
43.2%
30 to 59 2,700
46.3%
60 and over 611
10.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Joi first appears in the records in 1942 and was given most often in 1981, to 164 babies. In 2025, 48 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1942 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Joi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #915, in 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,271.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,271
Best rank#915 (1981)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,248 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Joi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Joi were born in California than in any other state: about 493 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Joi was given 4.4 times as often in Georgia, 2.7 times in Michigan and 2.3 times in Maryland.

California 493
Georgia 412
Illinois 338
Michigan 324
New York 300
Texas 250
Florida 216
Ohio 210
Maryland 119
Virginia 117
North Carolina 89
Pennsylvania 80
New Jersey 72
Alabama 53
Louisiana 43
Tennessee 37
Indiana 33
South Carolina 16
District of Columbia 14
Missouri 14
Mississippi 11
Iowa 5
Utah 4

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