The name Joe is originally a short form of Joseph, which originated from the Hebrew name Yosef meaning ‘He will add’. Joe is also known as a short form of [Josephine] for example.
Joe is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Joe isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Joe ranks 615. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Joe. In total, there are currently 432,411 people – children, adults and seniors – named Joe living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
Joe is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Joe. This means that several boys named Joe have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Joe has reached its best rank of #21 multiple times, most recently in 1905. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Joe one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Joe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Joe is one of them. However, Joe is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 10,333 men called Joe who live here are 1,12% of all male residents and push their name up to #12 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in New Mexico. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 432,411 people with the name Joe. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Joe on position 74 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With only three letters, the name Joe is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Joe and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Joe, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Joe
Joe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Joe sounds like this:
