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A name. A world of connections.
A given name in Danish and Finnish
No sourced pronunciation yet
01 / Meaning & origin
Joa is a masculine given name.
Separate records with matching spellings: Jóa (Icelandic)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Published statistics
United States, 2025: 9 boys (rank 8243).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
2000–2025 Spelling: Joa
Recorded category boys
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | 2 | 1,021 | observed |
| 2003 | 1 | 1,241 | observed |
| 2004 | 1 | 1,291 | observed |
| 2005 | 3 | 955 | observed |
| 2006 | 2 | 1,149 | observed |
| 2007 | 5 | 830 | observed |
| 2008 | 5 | 856 | observed |
| 2009 | 5 | 887 | observed |
| 2010 | 4 | 1,020 | observed |
| 2011 | 3 | 1,152 | observed |
| 2012 | 8 | 743 | observed |
| 2013 | 8 | 764 | observed |
| 2014 | 6 | 915 | observed |
| 2015 | 17 | 463 | observed |
| 2016 | 5 | 1,041 | observed |
| 2017 | 4 | 1,192 | observed |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | 9 | 749 | observed |
| 2020 | 3 | 1,391 | observed |
| 2021 | 7 | 960 | observed |
| 2022 | 5 | 1,116 | observed |
| 2023 | 9 | 725 | observed |
| 2024 | 2 | 1,634 | observed |
| 2025 | 2 | 1,916 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Joa” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Joa— “the Lord will judge”
_Joa_, _m._ _Span._ Heb. the Lord will judge, 37
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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