Jo

Featured in baby name books

Jo serves as a short form of Joanna or Josephine, or of any other name that begins with Jo. Jo is also a feminine version of Joseph and carries the meaning “God will add.”

Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, The Best Baby Names for Girls

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Usage of Jo in different languages / cultures

The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Jo against each list of names.

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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Jo is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.

Jo in official name statistics

United States

In 2025, 36 girls were named Jo, making it the #3975 girls' name in the US. Since 1881, 179,057 girls have been named Jo, with the most (8,052) in 1954. It is most common, relative to births, in California.

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Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.

Other countries

Where	Rank	Count	Source
Norway	#308 boys	11	Statistics Norway (SSB), 2025
Belgium (Flanders)	#739 girls (all ages)	727	Statbel (Belgian federal statistical office), 2024
Belgium (Flanders)	#249 boys (all ages)	3,082	Statbel (Belgian federal statistical office), 2024
Norway	#250 boys (all ages)	2,271	Statistics Norway (SSB), 2025

Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.

Jo in other languages

Joy Dutch, English
Jo-Jo English
Joe English
Joi English
Josefine Dutch
Jói Icelandic

Jo name days

August 29 Norway

Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Storms named Jo

Tropical storms, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones that have been named Jo, newest first.

Storm	Year	Ocean	Peak wind
Cyclone Jo (Category 1)	2000	South Pacific	120 km/h

Source: IBTrACS, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Peak wind is the highest sustained wind recorded for the storm.

Towns named Jo

There are 832 towns and villages with Jo in their name, in 18 countries.

🇵🇰 Pakistan 774🇯🇵 Japan 10🇺🇸 United States 9🇨🇳 China 6🇮🇳 India 5🇲🇿 Mozambique 5🇺🇿 Uzbekistan 5🇦🇫 Afghanistan 4

Jơ Ngây, Da Nang City, Vietnam · population 2,130 · View larger map

Name	Where	Population
Jơ Ngây	Da Nang City, 🇻🇳 Vietnam	2,130	Map
Saint Jo	Texas, 🇺🇸 United States	1,043	Map
Bani Jo	Balochistan, 🇵🇰 Pakistan	–	Map
Chot Jo	Balochistan, 🇵🇰 Pakistan	–	Map
Jo	Flanders, 🇧🇪 Belgium	–	Map
Jo	Balochistan, 🇵🇰 Pakistan	–	Map
Jo Fourneau	Sud-Est, 🇭🇹 Haiti	–	Map
Jo Gurha	Punjab, 🇵🇰 Pakistan	–	Map
Jo Jo	Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 United States	–	Map
Jo-Ersbygget	Jämtland, 🇸🇪 Sweden	–	Map

Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.

Lakes named Jo

There are 20 lakes and reservoirs with Jo in their name, in 3 countries.

🇺🇸 United States 13🇨🇦 Canada 4🇵🇰 Pakistan 3

Name	Where
Jo Jo Lake	Oregon, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo-Jo Lake	Yukon, 🇨🇦 Canada	Map
Lac Jo	Quebec, 🇨🇦 Canada	Map
Lac Jo-Jo	Quebec, 🇨🇦 Canada	Map
Lake Jo	North Carolina, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo Ann Lake	Wisconsin, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo Ann Lake	Oregon, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo-Anns Lakes	Georgia, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo-Mary Lake	Maine, 🇺🇸 United States	Map
Jo-Mary Pond	Maine, 🇺🇸 United States	Map

Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.

Jo songs

2 songs and musical works on Wikidata have Jo in their title. The best known:

Jo – Rema (2022)
Jo – Rema (2022)

Song data: Wikidata (CC0), ordered by how widely each song is covered on Wikipedia.

Celebrities named Jo

Based on celebrities listed on Wikipedia, filtered to only those with the first name Jo.

Jo Anne Worley

Jo Cox-Ladru

Jo Dee Messina

Jo Duffy

Fictional characters named Jo

Characters from films and TV series, from Wikidata, ordered by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.

Little Women

Doctor Who

Grey's Anatomy

CSI: NY

Supernatural

Spooks

Melrose Place

Emmerdale

Character data: Wikidata (CC0). Images: Wikimedia Commons; click an image for its author and licence.

Jo as a pet name

FurryName has found 82 dogs named Jo in public pet registers, making it the #1,602 dog name there. Most of them are registered in Golden Plains Shire (2), Corangamite Shire (1), Tacoma (1). Jo as a dog name →

Names popular for both babies and dogs

Jo products

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