Boy
Joe
The name Joe carries the meaning "He shall add", with roots in Hebrew. It had its heyday in the 1940s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a well-known pick in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
HebrewDiminutive of Joseph
HebrewHe shall add
Births by decade
1900s
10,759
1910s
39,097
1920s
64,416
1930s
73,880
1940s
74,171
1950s
64,459
1960s
54,286
1970s
25,399
1980s
16,728
1990s
11,972
2000s
8,185
2010s
3,831
Peaked in the 1940s · 447,183 total U.S. births since 1900