Girls' name · since 1921
Joice
557 babies named Joice in U.S. Social Security records since 1921, with the highest year being 1942. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #11,080 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 557
- born since 1921
- 1940s
- peak decade
Joice is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 557 have been recorded since 1921.
Joice has 557 recorded births among girls since 1921, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1921 to 2017.
- #11,080 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 557 born since 1921
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Joice ranks #11,080 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 557 born since 1921, peaking in the 1940s.
- #11,080 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 557
- born since 1921
- 1940s
- peak decade
Joice's 557 recorded births place it above 84.67% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joice's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Joice splits its recorded history at 1948: 39% of all births land in the more recent half, 61% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1921 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1942 peak of 24 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Joice popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1921–2017
- Peak year (1942)
- 24
- Annual births at peak, across 97 years of records
Joice by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (166 births, 30% of the file).
1940s was Joice's strongest decade.
166 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Joice births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
68 births
- 1930s
1930s
123 births
- 1940s
1940s
166 births
- 1950s
1950s
101 births
- 1960s 43
1960s
43 births
- 1970s 7
1970s
7 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 19
1990s
19 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s 14
2010s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 166 births (30% of all-time use).
How Joice compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Joice's total volume
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What to do with Joice's data
- Joice's decade-level peak was the 1940s (166 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Joice: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1942)
Similar record span (~96 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1921–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joice draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.