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Joey
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
Rank in 2024
#888
Born in 2024
266
Peak year
1962 · #200
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:164 in 2024 (#1,374)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 266 boys were named Joey, about 1 in every 6,449.
- It peaked in 1962 with 1,529 babies, ranked #200.
- It first shows up in the records in 1915.
- 53,474 boys have been named Joey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Joey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 107 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 944 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,660 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 16,901 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,063 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,158 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,641 babies, 0.17 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Joe + -y.
- A diminutive of the male given names Joe and Joseph.
- A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Joey, CC BY-SA 4.0.