Joyce
Joyce is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 240 births. Its best rank was 11th, in 1937–1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2400.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 194216,728 births
- Best rank
- #11first in 1937
- Since 1882
- 511,995people given the name
The story in the numbers
509,102 girls have been named Joyce in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1942, with 16,728 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 240 births in 2024, against 16,728 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1940s alone account for 30%. It has spent 139 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,893 boys have also been given it, 0.57% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Joyce | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 268 | |
| 1900s | 737 | |
| 1910s | 6,141 | |
| 1920s | 44,174 | |
| 1930s | 115,505 | |
| 1940s | 151,493 | |
| 1950s | 114,983 | |
| 1960s | 46,126 | |
| 1970s | 11,995 | |
| 1980s | 5,908 | |
| 1990s | 3,910 | |
| 2000s | 3,376 | |
| 2010s | 3,159 | |
| 2020s | 1,277 |
In 1942, its biggest year
Joyce was the 13th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1942 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda and Carol. See all of 1942.
Names that rose and fell with Joyce
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Barbarapeak 1947
- Beverlypeak 1953
- Marilynpeak 1947
- Deloriespeak 1941
- Peggiepeak 1948
- Maryloupeak 1942
- Patsypeak 1941
- Donnispeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.