Is it surprising that we've never had a president named Joe until today?

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It’s gonna be a weird four (eight?) years for me because my first name isn’t actually Fubart.

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It’s gonna be a weird four (eight?) years for me because my first name isn’t actually Fubart.

Sacramento Joe

I’d propose that we all call him Scranton Joe or Diamond Joe, but his career is twenty years older than me, so I guess I don’t get dibs.

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Kind of. It's actually always been a common name - certainly far more so than Grover, Millard or Rutherford. But we've only had 46 presidents, and with such a tiny sample size, you can get weird results.

Some of them went by their middle names. Woodrow instead of Thomas and Grover instead of Stephen come to mind.