John-Joe

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about John-Joe: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

John-Joe: Recorded since 1998, it reached #378 in 2008, and it stood at #404 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#378highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2901
2005	#3849
2011	#3830
2012	#3987
2015	#3908
2017	#3449
2018	#4749
2019	#2104
2020	#4608
2022	#2755
2023	#4107
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #3688 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2008–2024
Highest recorded position: #378 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2008–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

John-Joe appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 55 births with the name.

John-Joe across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

John-Joe's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#2104 (2019)	#3688 (2024)	12 of 27	55 (1998–2024)	10 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#378 (2008)	#378 (2008)	#404 (2024)	2 of 17	6 (2008–2024)	3 (2008)

John-Joe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with John-Joe in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010sbusiest	30	6 of 10	5
2020s	19	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

John-Joe appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #378 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

John-Joe's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #378, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
6 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#404position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
10 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
10births registered in its largest year, 2019Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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John-Junior · #1920, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chantell · #378, 18y
Olin · #379, 11y
Teighan · #377, 18y
Tyreke · #379, 9y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chantell · #378, 18y
Eben · #378, 29y
Presley · #378, 27y
Tye · #378, 28y

John-Joe was ranked #378 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

John-Joe and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed John-Joe without appearing here.

John-Joe moved ahead of

Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2104 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #4789.
Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #4107 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Aria Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #3411.

Moved ahead of John-Joe

Daithi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #3112.

Moved the same way as John-Joe

Garry Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Joe went from #2901 to #4107 and Garry from #850 to #4991.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #378 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

John-Joe

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

John-Joe across 2 official records

John-Joe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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John-Joe across 2 official records

John-Joe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

John-Joe appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside John-Joe

John-Joe and the names beside it

John-Joe moved ahead of

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