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Baby Girl Names - Jo
The name Jo is a diminutive form of Josephine.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Jo has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to
2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social
Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular
names given to baby girls in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jo
| Use of the Name Jo for Girls During the Last ... |
| 125 Years |
50 Years |
25 Years |
10 Years |
5 Years |
2 Years |
1 Year |
| 177,225 |
57,298 |
1,547 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
The table below indicates the number of times the name Jo has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Jo first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table.
Jo last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1985, the last year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jo
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Used as a Girl Name |
Used as a Boy Name |
| Year |
Rank | Count |
Rank | Count |
| 1881 | 882 | 5 | | |
| 1882 | | | | |
| 1883 | 670 | 9 | | |
| 1884 | 888 | 7 | | |
| 1885 | 676 | 11 | | |
| 1886 | 622 | 14 | | |
| 1887 | | | | |
| 1888 | | | | |
| 1889 | 825 | 11 | | |
| 1890 | | | | |
| 1891 | 710 | 15 | | |
| 1892 | 846 | 13 | | |
| 1893 | | | | |
| 1894 | 802 | 15 | | |
| 1895 | | | | |
| 1896 | 715 | 20 | | |
| 1897 | 810 | 16 | | |
| 1898 | 830 | 17 | | |
| 1899 | 801 | 17 | | |
| 1900 | 754 | 24 | | |
| 1901 | 754 | 19 | | |
| 1902 | 677 | 25 | | |
| 1903 | 617 | 29 | | |
| 1904 | 693 | 26 | | |
| 1905 | 606 | 34 | | |
| 1906 | 619 | 34 | | |
| 1907 | 660 | 33 | | |
| 1908 | 548 | 46 | | |
| 1909 | 608 | 41 | | |
| 1910 | 675 | 40 | | |
| 1911 | 677 | 41 | | |
| 1912 | 590 | 68 | | |
| 1913 | 537 | 89 | | |
| 1914 | 551 | 103 | | |
| 1915 | 570 | 128 | | |
| 1916 | 539 | 152 | | |
| 1917 | 561 | 146 | | |
| 1918 | 479 | 200 | | |
| 1919 | 436 | 227 | | |
| 1920 | 444 | 232 | | |
| 1921 | 419 | 258 | | |
| 1922 | 375 | 304 | | |
| 1923 | 332 | 387 | | |
| 1924 | 284 | 539 | | |
| 1925 | 265 | 631 | | |
| 1926 | 223 | 811 | | |
| 1927 | 203 | 973 | | |
| 1928 | 179 | 1,169 | | |
| 1929 | 140 | 1,591 | | |
| 1930 | 131 | 1,871 | | |
| 1931 | 116 | 2,086 | | |
| 1932 | 103 | 2,384 | | |
| 1933 | 90 | 2,542 | | |
| 1934 | 75 | 3,249 | | |
| 1935 | 73 | 3,295 | | |
| 1936 | 72 | 3,290 | | |
| 1937 | 73 | 3,228 | | |
| 1938 | 78 | 3,168 | | |
| 1939 | 70 | 3,523 | | |
| 1940 | 71 | 3,430 | | |
| 1941 | 66 | 3,751 | | |
| 1942 | 65 | 4,187 | | |
| 1943 | 63 | 4,279 | | |
| 1944 | 61 | 4,223 | | |
| 1945 | 60 | 4,228 | | |
| 1946 | 53 | 5,820 | | |
| 1947 | 51 | 6,711 | | |
| 1948 | 56 | 5,980 | | |
| 1949 | 60 | 5,801 | | |
| 1950 | 64 | 5,668 | | |
| 1951 | 67 | 5,975 | | |
| 1952 | 55 | 7,100 | | |
| 1953 | 54 | 7,516 | | |
| 1954 | 53 | 8,052 | | |
| 1955 | 57 | 7,661 | | |
| 1956 | 69 | 6,945 | | |
| 1957 | 83 | 5,724 | | |
| 1958 | 91 | 5,217 | | |
| 1959 | 115 | 4,057 | | |
| 1960 | 134 | 3,377 | | |
| 1961 | 152 | 2,794 | | |
| 1962 | 167 | 2,444 | | |
| 1963 | 176 | 2,196 | | |
| 1964 | 183 | 2,055 | | |
| 1965 | 183 | 1,852 | | |
| 1966 | 200 | 1,592 | | |
| 1967 | 214 | 1,408 | | |
| 1968 | 225 | 1,328 | | |
| 1969 | 251 | 1,168 | | |
| 1970 | 272 | 1,103 | | |
| 1971 | 299 | 915 | | |
| 1972 | 324 | 724 | | |
| 1973 | 332 | 669 | | |
| 1974 | 365 | 589 | | |
| 1975 | 388 | 522 | | |
| 1976 | 461 | 417 | | |
| 1977 | 509 | 365 | | |
| 1978 | 548 | 323 | | |
| 1979 | 590 | 306 | | |
| 1980 | 543 | 347 | | |
| 1981 | 543 | 342 | | |
| 1982 | 661 | 269 | | |
| 1983 | 775 | 206 | | |
| 1984 | 769 | 210 | | |
| 1985 | 912 | 173 | | |
| Totals: | | 177,225 | | 0 |
During the last 125 years, parents have used Jo as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a boy's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jo appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 119 times during the last 125 years.
See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.
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