# Joost (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/joost/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Dutch |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |

## People named Joost

- Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)
- Joost Klein, Dutch musician and videographer (born 1997)
- Joost van Aken, Dutch association football player
- Joost Broerse, Dutch footballer
- Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, Dutch painter (1586-1666)
- Joost Swarte, Dutch graphic designer (born 1947)
- Joost van Leijen, Dutch road cyclist
- Joost Zwagerman, Dutch writer, poet, and essayist (1963–2015)
- Joost van Vollenhoven, 1877-1918, Dutch-born French soldier, and colonial administrator.
- Joost Wichman, Dutch cyclist
- Joost Eerdmans, Dutch politician (born 1971)
- Joost Ritman, Dutch businessman and collector of books

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.