Joi

Where Joi comes from

Joi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #3,738 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Joi Chua born
    singer, songwriter
  3. 1981
    Peak, #912
    164 babies named Joi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,667.
  5. 2000
    Joi Barua born
    Indian singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Joi Chua · singer, songwriter, born 1978
  • Joi Barua · Indian singer, born 2000
  • Joi Cardwell · American musician, born 1967
  • Joi Arcand · Canadian photographer, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.