This page shows the Joe (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1976 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Joe was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Joe's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Joe for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Joe appears in 47 of them, from 1976 to 2025, with 1,452 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2001, when the table records 74 babies given the name, at rank 81 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1976 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Joe for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1976 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20254647
20248404
202312304
202210342
20218401
202016249
20199355
201820225
201722219
201635165
201520231
201428196
201342137
201232181
201136164
201057112
200952122
200862113
200762104
200653110
20056299
20046790
200347108
20025494
20017481
20006191
199950105
199840122
19975997
199652105
199538121
199435131
199338125
199227146
199126142
199024135
198915155
198824129
198715155
198618136
19859190
19844263
19833314
19829183
19815249
19805249
19763294

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