Baby name

Jo

Girl

Origin of the name

Jo is a short form of names such as Joanna, Josephine or Joseph.

Short-lived name

The high point came in 1954, with 8,052 births and the No. 53 spot that year. Since then, the name has fallen 99%, to about 40 births a year. In 2025, it ranked No. 3974. 36% of all babies named Jo since 1880 were born in the 1950s.

179,057births since 1880

1950sgeneration

No. 53rank at its peak, in 1954

Where babies named Jo are born

1954

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The darker the blue, the more common Jo is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Jo is most common in Arkansas (2.1 times), Oklahoma (2.1) and West Virginia (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Joy 140,694
Joe 11,319
Joi 6,095
Jon 1,249

Names from the same era

Vicki · Roberta · Yvonne · Lynn · Gwendolyn · Connie

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