Joah
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #2,020 for boys in 2025, 74 births
- Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 79 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,241since 1977
Joah over time
Rank among boys' names. Joah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,020 | 74 |
| 2024 | — | #2,098 | 71 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,954 | 79 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,675 | 49 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,373 | 57 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,806 | 43 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,421 | 55 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,579 | 49 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,532 | 50 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,551 | 49 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,276 | 58 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,205 | 61 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,998 | 37 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,478 | 50 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,958 | 39 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,421 | 32 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,868 | 41 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,306 | 32 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,241 | 31 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,528 | 25 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,044 | 20 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,302 | 18 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,042 | 10 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,197 | 16 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Joah! It came in at #4,582, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Joah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,126 · 1 in 8,685
- Texas#1,555 · 1 in 15,914
- New York#1,576 · 1 in 14,070
- California#1,829 · 1 in 21,934
Best ever in a state: #539 in Wisconsin, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,126 | 11 | 1 in 8,685 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
| New York | #1,576 | 6 | 1 in 14,070 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Joah
- 78 spots since 2024 (#2,098 → #2,020)
- 786 spots since 2020 (#2,806 → #2,020)
- 256 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #2,020)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2023 at #1,954 (79 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,653 boys born in 2023 were named Joah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,082 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.2% of all boys named Joah (487) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 12 | #4,582 (1977) | #5,177 |
| 1980s | 24 | #3,630 (1983) | #5,151 |
| 1990s | 66 | #4,197 (1998) | #6,170 |
| 2000s | 279 | #2,868 (2007) | #3,612 |
| 2010s | 487 | #2,205 (2014) | #2,595 |
| 2020s | 373 | #1,954 (2023) | #2,321 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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