Gender-neutral · #874 in 2025
Joey
Joey: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #874
- Born 2025
- 274
- Peak year
- 1976
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Joey has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 22% of its 1976 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 35% of children named Joey were recorded as girls and 65% 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.