Gender-neutral · #3975 in 2025
Jo
Jo: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #3975
- Born 2025
- 36
- Peak year
- 1954
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Jo has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1954 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 87% of children named Jo were recorded as girls and 13% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.