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How popular is the name Joey?
Births per year, rank history and how many Joeys are alive today.
Joey (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 163rd in 2025 with 324 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2014, when 627 babies were given the name, the 97th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 7,000 babies have been named Joey in England and Wales since the 1990s. Common short forms of Joey include Joe. Joey is also a common short form of Joseph, so many people called Joey are registered under the longer name.
The Joey you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Joeys born in England and Wales are between 5 and 13, and there are at least 7,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Joey.
How many babies are named Joey each year?
Where does Joey rank among boys' names?
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 Joey most popular?
Joey peaked in 2014, when 627 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Joey?
At least 7,000 people named Joey born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Joey?
Most living Joeys are between 5 and 13; the most common age is about 12.
Is Joey becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.