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The JOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,382 3891 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 484 9934 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +7898 +6043 +0.002 +21
Other Countries
Australia 94 15073 0.001 6
United Kingdom 69 25244 0 1
Top States for JOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,619 2532 0.005 48
Texas 895 3327 0.004 43
Arizona 534 1488 0.010 104
New Mexico 464 501 0.026 255
New York 430 5912 0.002 23
Top States for JOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 161 592 0.026 257
New Mexico 464 501 0.026 255
Arizona 534 1488 0.010 104
South Carolina 332 2390 0.008 83
Mississippi 164 2767 0.006 58

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOE by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the JOE surname.

Ethnic distribution of JOE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 239 2.85
White (Hispanic) 234 2.79
Black/African American 2,151 25.66
Native American/Alaskan 2,902 34.62
Asian/Pacific 1,815 21.65
White (Caucasian) 1,041 12.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

JOE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of JOE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of JOE.

Similar names to JOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JOE

The following words are slight variants of JOE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.