Jò
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jò is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 91st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse jór, from Proto-Germanic *ehwaz.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #576 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 549 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
57,903 people, 2020
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jo in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Norsejór(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*ehwaz(measured from records)
From Old Norse jór, from Proto-Germanic *ehwaz.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jò counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #250 | 57,903 | 1 in 5.7K | 55K | Jo | 549 |
| GB United Kingdom | #259 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 4 | Jo | 334 |
| PH Philippines | #644 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Jo | 134 |
| AU Australia | #226 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 3 | Jo | 234 |
| CA Canada | #287 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 1 | Jo | 211 |
| BE Belgium | #446 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 7 | Jo | 125 |
| NZ New Zealand | #161 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 10 | Jo | 145 |
| NO Norway | #448 | 2,271 | 1 in 2.4K | 6.4K | Jo | 92 |
| CV Cape Verde | #91 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Jo | 6 |
57,903 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jò is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-pro, bird: rapace spp.
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, female genitals
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, oiseau: rapace spp.
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, vulve
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jò mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse jór, from Proto-Germanic *ehwaz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Jò a male or female name?
- Jò is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jò have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Jò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jo.
- How common is the name Jò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,903 people named Jò in 2020, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Jò compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jò is the 250th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jò” — the 250th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.