Joia

Peak · girls
1987 · 39 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
488
since 1968

Joia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Joia has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,572, 1987girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,86011
2024#11,1228
2023#10,3129
2022#12,2437
2021#11,1468
2020#11,0908
2019#15,5395
2018#12,4647
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2016#12,8767
2015#14,4826
2014#11,9318
2013#11,9698
2012#16,8695
2011#16,7645
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2009#10,67910
2008#11,5999
2007#11,6309
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2005#9,45211
2004#9,89210
2003#10,4259
2002#7,04515
2001#5,57020
2000#5,93718
1999#7,71612
1998#9,2609
1997#7,74211
1996#6,72313
1995#11,7836
1994#8,8049
1993#10,5887
1992#10,4797
1991#7,98710
1990#7,30311
1989#6,53112
1988#2,64640
1987#2,57239
1986#3,64523
1985#9,3076
1984#9,1446
1983#7,3128
1982#10,5175
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1980#6,31910
1979#8,0617
1978#8,5626
1977#6,8928
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Joia! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Joia is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Joia in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Joia
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 2,262 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #8,860)
  • 2,230 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #8,860)
  • 5,622 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1987 at #2,572 (39 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 44,521
  • Highest: 1 in 44,521 girls born in 1988 were named Joia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,572 in 1987, was only 1 in 44,580 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 30.5% of all girls named Joia (149) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s26#6,892 (1977)#8,073
1980s149#2,572 (1987)#6,444
1990s95#6,723 (1996)#8,839
2000s111#5,570 (2001)#9,137
2010s51#11,931 (2014)#14,112
2020s51#8,860 (2025)#10,796

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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