Joa
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JOH-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Joa is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
Where does Joa come from?
Hebrew: possibly a form of Joah, or of Portuguese João (John)
Is Joa a girl's or a boy's name?
Joa is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 9 boys in the US.
How popular is Joa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Joa, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013. 5 girls were also named Joa in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Joa in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 83 boys in the US were given Joa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,646, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
- Joah 74
- Joa 9
Joa in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
Names like Joa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Moses, Amos, Ezra, Asa, Jasper, Abner, Alonzo, Ellis, Major, Henry, August, Otto
Other spellings of Joa
Names related to Joa
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Joa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/joa, updated 20 October 2026.