Joe
43
Babies in 2024
-85%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.57k
-32%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Joe
Joe peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,567 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 43 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Joe reached its peak in 1996, when 1,567 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #50 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 43 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 19,164 boys have been officially registered with the name Joe in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,593 boys were registered with the name, starting from 291 in 2014 and ending at 43 in 2024.