Joya
Joya was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,152 among girls’ names; 1,796 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Joya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joya?
#5,152 among girls’ names, 2025
Joya rose from #6,131 in 2015 to #5,152 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 15.6 per million.
43 babies in 1990, the peak
Joya peaked in 1990, when 43 girls were given it, #2,709 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,152 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,072 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,837 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,087 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,825 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,183 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,694 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,236 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,051 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,526 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,131 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,376 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,815 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,893 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,633 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,051 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,861 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,674 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,298 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,883 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,524 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,760 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,907 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,681 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,055 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,871 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,108 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,072 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,109 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,048 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,444 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,424 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,442 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,099 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,708 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,709 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,056 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,057 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,052 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,590 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,662 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,655 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,280 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,664 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,022 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,952 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,819 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,555 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,864 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,186 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,378 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,041 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,860 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,453 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,758 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,812 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,688 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,099 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,137 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,799 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,931 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,301 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,450 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,383 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,119 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,576 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,167 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,450 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,122 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,980 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,491 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,110 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,639 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,683 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,114 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,124 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,042 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,815 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,278 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,997 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,355 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joya, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,796 Americans ever recorded as Joya. The median Joya alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,679 people named Joya (1,671 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 377 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 451 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 425 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,752 babies since 1880, Joya is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 969 babies (2.6%), the fifth 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 Joya
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 Joya and names like it
- Compare Joya and JoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJoya peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joya since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Joya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Joya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.