Joyce — #1041 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Joyce

The Social Security Administration has registered 509,102 babies named Joyce between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Joyce currently holds the #1041 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 16,728 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Joyce performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 151,493 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Joyce shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 36,349 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Joyce in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Joyce 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 509,102 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.