Joyanne — girls' name
276 babies named Joyanne in U.S. Social Security records since 1936, with the highest year being 1946. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Joyanne was born in this single decade.
35 babies were named Joyanne in 1946 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Joyanne
The Social Security Administration has registered 276 babies named Joyanne between 1936 and 2016, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Joyanne currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 35 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Joyanne performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 111 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Joyanne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 9 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Joyanne in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Joyanne in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 276 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Joyanne at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Joyanne popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1936
- Peak year (1946)
- 35
- Annual births at peak — across 81 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
276 total births across 81 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1946 with 35 births in a single year.
Joyanne by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 111 births that decade — 40% of Joyanne's all-time total
Joyanne decade highlights
- Peak decade 111 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Joyanne's strongest decade
111 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Joyanne by state
Where Joyanne concentrates geographically — total births since 1936
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 9 | 3.3% |
9 of 276 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1936–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.