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How popular is the name Joab?
Births per year, rank history and how many Joabs are alive today.
Joab (male), a spelling of Jobe, last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2022 (ranked 4790th); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. This spelling of the name peaked in 2005, when 12 babies were given the name, the 1534th most popular that year.
Across all spellings of the name, the Jobe you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old. Half of all Jobes born in England and Wales are between 15 and 30, and there are at least 560 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Jobe - on average, only one in every 542 such rooms contains a Jobe.
How many babies are named Joab each year?
Includes all spellings: Joab, Jobe. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Joab spelling rank?
Where does the Jobe spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Joab most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Jobe, peaked in 2005, when 33 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Joab spelling itself peaked in 2005, with 12 babies.
How many people are called Joab?
At least 560 people named Joab in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Joab?
Most living Joabs are between 15 and 30; the most common age is about 20.
Is Joab becoming more or less popular?
It has faded from the rankings.