Meaning and history
Jo is a short form of Joan, Joanna, Josephine, and other names beginning with Jo. It is primarily masculine in German, Dutch, and Norwegian, where it is short for Johannes or Josef.
20062006: 25 births, rank #5,383
2007: 18 births, rank #7,092
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 18 births, rank #7,066
2010: 6 births, rank #14,959
20112011: 14 births, rank #8,196
2012: 18 births, rank #6,872
2013: 15 births, rank #7,748
2014: 18 births, rank #6,713
2015: 27 births, rank #4,981
20162016: 34 births, rank #4,250
2017: 40 births, rank #3,769
2018: 40 births, rank #3,739
2019: 34 births, rank #4,162
2020: 35 births, rank #4,005
20212021: 42 births, rank #3,614
2022: 36 births, rank #4,041
2023: 47 births, rank #3,386
2024: 34 births, rank #4,207
20252025: 36 births, rank #3,975
Jo moved from #769 to #926 for girls between 1984 and 1985. Its highest annual birth count came in 1954, with 8,052 births.