Joey

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Joey is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: diminutive of Joseph; also used as a given name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.5K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 2.4K
  • CACanada1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
494 ●

673K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.5K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

JoeyLatin · English●761K records
ג'ואיHebrew · Hebrew●526 records
조이Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled ג'ואי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

diminutive of Joseph; also used as a given name

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Joey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#169114,757103K rec.——Joey134
US United States#61851,153476K rec.1 in 6.5K51KJoey494
CA Canada#52020,53514K rec.—9Joey193
GB United Kingdom#82018,20916K rec.—50Joey155
AU Australia#84311,44710K rec.—19Joey168
MY Malaysia#6408,0694.8K rec.—1.1KJoey90
SG Singapore#1514,5083.7K rec.——Joey110
DE Germany—3,8203.7K rec.—listedJoey101
FR France—3,410△5 rec.1 in 20K3.4K—7
ZA South Africa—2,6482.7K rec.——Joey68
IT Italy—2,5462.6K rec.—4Joey51
JP Japan—712589 rec.——Joey47

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English761K72%
  • Spanish72K7%
  • 48K5%
  • French28K3%
  • Western Frisian23K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English760,62872%
Spanish72,1937%
47,6435%
French28,4203%
Western Frisian22,6392%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Joey is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name123K records spelled Joey12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Joëy, Joèy, Jôey, Joḙȳ, Jóey

  • a separate given name49K records spelled Joey2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Joëy

  • Indonesian given name7.9K records spelled Joey2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Joëy

  • Polish given name3.8K records spelled Joey11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Jôéý

  • Thai given name3.0K records spelled Joey10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โจอี้, โจ้อี้, โจอี, โจอิ, โจอ

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Joey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Pet form of pJoe.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • English: pet form of JOE .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1920194019601980200020201.5K · 1962

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Joey in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19156
19169
19187
19198
19205
192111
192212
19238
192414
192511
192615
192714
192819
192916
193024
193124
193228
193322
193426
193535
193631
193738
193831
193949
194065
194152
194296
1943131
1944137
1945120
1946121
1947174
1948153
1949154
1950188
1951196
1952241
1953328
1954500
1955693
1956946
19571,041
19581,067
19591,121
19601,206
19611,257
19621,529
19631,382
19641,362
19651,120
19661,032
19671,068
19681,111
19691,191
19701,137
19711,070
1972912
1973872
1974855
1975840
19761,160
19771,213
19781,072
19791,095
19801,154
19811,072
19821,001
1983791
1984742
1985763
1986655
1987720
1988619
1989605
1990685
1991651
1992575
1993653
1994554
1995507
1996470
1997441
1998403
1999449
2000481
2001435
2002448
2003496
2004508
2005482
2006474
2007470
2008448
2009408
2010405
2011408
2012404
2013382
2014370
2015318
2016355
2017301
2018323
2019306
2020253
2021252
2022264
2023258
2024267
2025274

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 110 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Joey Bishop, b. 1918Joey Travolta, b. 1950Joey Lauren Adams, b. 1968Joey Slotnick, b. 1968Joey McFarland, b. 1972Clayne Crawford, b. 1978Joey Barton, b. 1982Joey Ansah, b. 1982Joey Veerman, b. 1998Joey King, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 75 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Joey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202051K#823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.3K#823
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.4K#769
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—1.1K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025274—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—269#4,225
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—231#800
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022230—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—224#22,984
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025146—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010143#120,901
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—128#32,175

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 697 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joey?
We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Joey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Joey have the most bearers?
Joey is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled joey.
How common is Joey compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Joey is the 169th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Joey a male or female name?
Joey is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Joey mean?
Recorded meaning: diminutive of Joseph; also used as a given name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joey” — the 169th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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