Meaning of name Joey

The name Joey has the following meaning:

This name can be given to both baby boys and girls. It is a unisex name.

As a baby boy name, Joey is currently a popular baby name, with a recent overall USA popularity ranking of 511 out of 1000 (source: 2000s U.S. Census).

In 2009, the name Joey fell in popularity and moved down the USA Top 1000 charts in Year 2009, by 38 places. For the Year 2009, it ranked 615 in the Top 1000 charts.

The following chart shows the popularity of the name Joey in the USA, over the past 100 years.

The name Joey is very likely a(n) English variant of the name Joseph. See other suggested English baby names.

You might also like to see the other variants of the name Joseph.

The following names are baby names related to Joey and are suitable names for brothers and sisters of Joey: Boys - Ethan, Messiah, Oren, Reuben, Semaj, Zeb, Zebediah, Girls - Amaris, Besse, Danita, Ivah, Jalisa, Natane, Nila, Orpha, Samantha, Samara, Sherryl, Both genders - Anna, Ariel, Betty, Dagan, Dagen, Dalit

The name Joey is a variant of Joseph. Other popular variants of the name Joseph are: Che (Hebrew), Epeei, Giuseppe (Italian), Giuseppino, Iosep, Jessop, Jessup, Jodi, Jodie, Jody, Joe (English), Joey (English), Joop, Joos, Joosef, Joosep, Joosepe, Joosepi, Jooseppi, Jopi, Jopie, Jose, Joseba, Josef (Scandinavian), Joseito, Josep, Josephe, Josephus, Josif, Josip, Josslin, Josu, Joszef, Joza, Jozef, Jozka, Osip, Pepe, Pepito, Pino, Pipo, Sepp, Seppi, Yosef (Jewish), Yousef, Yusif, Yusuf, Yusup, Yuszef

We think the name Joey should fall under the following style category: Everlasting.

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Based on our research, most people would imagine a person with the name Joey to be: Tall, smart and serious

In one word, you might describe Joey as a(n) "smart" person.

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