Joice
Joice was last recorded in 2017, when 9 babies were given it; 557 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joice mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Joice is “a female given name, equivalent to English Joyce”
/ˈʒɔj.si/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,104, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1942, the peak
Joice peaked in 1942, when 24 girls were given it, #1,732 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 9 | #11,104 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,050 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,603 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,412 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,496 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,085 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,976 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,964 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,899 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,222 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 5 | #7,230 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,008 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,685 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,150 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,025 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,267 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,325 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,705 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,788 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,206 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,587 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,825 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,863 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,599 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,966 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,671 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,605 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,491 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,940 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,812 | 16.8 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,991 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,298 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,732 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,313 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,642 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,167 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,981 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,504 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,204 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,036 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,032 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,610 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,425 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,673 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,151 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,252 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,327 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,420 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,401 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,685 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,516 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,666 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,502 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joice, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Joice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,178 people named Joice (1,140 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 514,584 babies since 1880, Joice is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 233 babies recorded by SSA was a Joice (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joice
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joice and names like it
- Compare Joice and JoyceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJoice peaked in 1942.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Joice: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Joice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.