Joie
Joie was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,792 among girls’ names; 3,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Joie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joie is “a diminutive of the female given name Josephine.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Joseph.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joie?
#2,792 among girls’ names, 2025
Joie rose from #3,194 in 2015 to #2,792 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.1 to 38.0 per million.
85 babies in 2019, the peak
Joie peaked in 2019, when 85 girls were given it, #2,183 among girls’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,792 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,905 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,917 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,455 | 45.1 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,356 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,760 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,183 | 50.6 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,078 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,411 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,159 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,194 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,681 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,606 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,875 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,195 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,176 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,980 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,758 | 34.9 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,694 | 35.4 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,741 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,322 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,867 | 30.5 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,061 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,757 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,543 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,608 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,511 | 32.1 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,032 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,940 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,577 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,114 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,421 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,030 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,755 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,253 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,427 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,166 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,423 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,367 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,092 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,531 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,178 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,476 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,366 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,583 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,768 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,319 | 25.5 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,368 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,394 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,668 | 40.3 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,001 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,716 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,593 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,108 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,560 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,371 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,228 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,743 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,459 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,094 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,870 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,589 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,392 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,665 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,010 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,393 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,446 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,156 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,694 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,568 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,588 | 5.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,657 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,776 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,122 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,744 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,765 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,343 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,811 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,826 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,526 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,771 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,595 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,390 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,082 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,808 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,660 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,044 | 8.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,037 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,033 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,263 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,565 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,115 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,190 | 8.0 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,059 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,712 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,073 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,253 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,014 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,385 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,233 | 5.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,197 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,512 | 7.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,599 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,210 Americans recorded as Joie, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 61 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joie, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 3,210 Americans ever recorded as Joie. The median Joie alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,663 people named Joie (2,414 women and girls, 249 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,578 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 54 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 234 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 563 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 406 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 755 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Joie born?
The states with the most babies named Joie are California, Texas and New York, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,375 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,763 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,237 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,308 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,752 babies since 1880, Joie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 969 babies (6.3%), the second most given that year.
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 Joie
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 Joie and names like it
- Compare Joie and JoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJoie peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joie since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Joie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.