Meaning and history
Joey is a diminutive of Joseph and is also occasionally used as a feminine diminutive of Josephine or Johanna.
20062006: 474 births, rank #532
2007: 470 births, rank #547
2008: 448 births, rank #575
2009: 408 births, rank #616
2010: 405 births, rank #612
20112011: 408 births, rank #604
2012: 404 births, rank #609
2013: 382 births, rank #642
2014: 370 births, rank #684
2015: 318 births, rank #757
20162016: 355 births, rank #695
2017: 301 births, rank #777
2018: 323 births, rank #739
2019: 306 births, rank #772
2020: 253 births, rank #895
20212021: 252 births, rank #910
2022: 264 births, rank #891
2023: 258 births, rank #901
2024: 267 births, rank #888
20252025: 274 births, rank #874
Joey rose from #890 to #877 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 1,529 births.