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The name Joe is a diminutive form of Joseph. The table below indicates the number of times the name Joe has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Joe**
Use of the Name Joe for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
442,652	144,201	32,785	9,576	4,483	1,702	808

The table below indicates the number of times the name Joe has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Joe**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	20	731	879	5
1881	23	639	559	10
1882	23	739	483	15
1883	26	607	491	16
1884	22	761	626	12
1885	25	680	642	12
1886	21	759	590	15
1887	21	685	768	10
1888	23	789	519	24
1889	25	708	611	18
1890	28	682	589	20
1891	29	584	580	21
1892	23	819	935	11
1893	28	721	588	24
1894	28	741	618	23
1895	28	763	583	27
1896	28	767	975	12
1897	26	798	634	24
1898	29	827	761	20
1899	24	780	775	18
1900	22	1,181	616	33
1901	27	756	940	13
1902	23	956	608	30
1903	24	894	672	25
1904	23	959	895	17
1905	23	1,024	675	28
1906	25	1,019	545	42
1907	23	1,177	696	30
1908	24	1,210	685	32
1909	23	1,289	588	43
1910	25	1,550	656	42
1911	29	1,445	645	45
1912	35	2,515	606	66
1913	37	2,803	659	62
1914	34	3,710	662	77
1915	38	4,649	612	114
1916	35	4,918	683	100
1917	35	5,137	703	96
1918	34	5,821	669	114
1919	35	5,713	616	130
1920	35	6,065	616	134
1921	36	6,197	634	136
1922	35	6,100	591	149
1923	35	5,998	610	144
1924	35	6,048	604	152
1925	34	6,090	570	159
1926	33	6,329	476	211
1927	30	6,516	461	230
1928	30	6,681	469	213
1929	30	6,589	449	216
1930	27	6,871	414	253
1931	29	6,416	431	224
1932	29	6,689	418	247
1933	27	6,412	406	247
1934	26	7,074	401	264
1935	25	7,548	429	225
1936	23	8,009	413	244
1937	25	7,722	434	227
1938	28	7,438	438	236
1939	27	7,200	428	249
1940	28	7,227	454	218
1941	30	7,102	458	228
1942	33	7,402	478	237
1943	35	7,276	496	225
1944	33	7,036	503	204
1945	36	6,613	526	192
1946	37	7,496	537	217
1947	43	7,887	565	228
1948	47	7,260	586	203
1949	52	6,509	572	215
1950	54	6,039	590	205
1951	58	5,792	610	197
1952	62	5,903	673	174
1953	66	5,759	648	191
1954	67	5,852	620	215
1955	68	5,868	697	182
1956	63	6,109	683	199
1957	57	6,766	767	169
1958	56	7,058	800	158
1959	57	7,368	826	154
1960	57	7,315	935	130
1961	60	7,044
1962	60	6,771
1963	58	6,375
1964	62	5,812
1965	71	4,840
1966	74	4,332
1967	85	3,709
1968	85	3,522
1969	83	3,616
1970	90	3,572
1971	101	3,142
1972	101	2,820
1973	104	2,521
1974	113	2,344
1975	116	2,236
1976	117	2,167
1977	128	2,122
1978	128	2,033
1979	136	1,954
1980	140	1,984
1981	149	1,861
1982	149	1,865
1983	163	1,612
1984	167	1,590
1985	169	1,586
1986	173	1,531
1987	184	1,486
1988	188	1,467
1989	195	1,486
1990	212	1,451
1991	214	1,456
1992	221	1,388
1993	232	1,246
1994	243	1,200
1995	261	1,070
1996	267	1,050
1997	277	1,008
1998	286	1,004
1999	297	961
2000	315	917
2001	303	952
2002	312	912
2003	327	894
2004	348	808
Totals:		442,652		9,777

During the last 125 years, parents have used Joe as a boy's name about 97% of the time and less frequently (about 2% of the time) as a girl's name.

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