Joye
Joye was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,981 among girls’ names; 3,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Joye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 52 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joye?
#13,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Joye rose from #15,363 in 2015 to #13,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
77 babies in 1932, the peak
Joye peaked in 1932, when 77 girls were given it, #771 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,981 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,593 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,750 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,672 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,786 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,111 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,553 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,363 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,004 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,299 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #18,629 | 2.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,359 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,326 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,821 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,589 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,470 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,772 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,800 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,689 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,232 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,451 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,034 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,311 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,409 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,353 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,920 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,545 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,181 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,362 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,637 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,813 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,068 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,558 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,463 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,914 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,359 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,756 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,319 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,420 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,569 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,213 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,230 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,993 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,418 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,446 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,413 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,152 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,954 | 23.2 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,098 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,967 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,815 | 22.7 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,646 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,847 | 20.8 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,681 | 23.4 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,505 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,388 | 31.2 |
| 1959 | 65 | #1,329 | 32.1 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,454 | 26.8 |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,265 | 33.7 |
| 1956 | 69 | #1,253 | 34.4 |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,233 | 34.3 |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,232 | 33.5 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,363 | 27.1 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,292 | 29.7 |
| 1951 | 51 | #1,306 | 28.3 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,340 | 27.4 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,440 | 24.0 |
| 1948 | 67 | #1,087 | 39.5 |
| 1947 | 56 | #1,210 | 31.6 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,009 | 44.5 |
| 1945 | 61 | #988 | 46.7 |
| 1944 | 56 | #1,049 | 42.2 |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,055 | 41.6 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,057 | 40.7 |
| 1941 | 68 | #888 | 56.3 |
| 1940 | 52 | #994 | 45.5 |
| 1939 | 60 | #911 | 54.7 |
| 1938 | 58 | #939 | 52.6 |
| 1937 | 55 | #936 | 51.7 |
| 1936 | 63 | #859 | 60.6 |
| 1935 | 65 | #857 | 62.0 |
| 1934 | 50 | #978 | 47.9 |
| 1933 | 66 | #823 | 65.5 |
| 1932 | 77 | #771 | 72.2 |
| 1931 | 66 | #850 | 62.0 |
| 1930 | 68 | #873 | 60.4 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,021 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 68 | #893 | 59.0 |
| 1927 | 62 | #971 | 52.0 |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,107 | 39.6 |
| 1925 | 41 | #1,218 | 33.7 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,195 | 35.2 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,412 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,814 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,495 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,726 | 20.0 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,624 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,665 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,958 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,909 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,467 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,391 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,672 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,246 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,330 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,375 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,248 | 34.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joye has been given almost only to girls: 8 boys in 107 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joye, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 56% of the 3,481 Americans ever recorded as Joye. The median Joye alive today is 66 years old; half are between 52 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 2,372 people named Joye (2,307 women and girls, 65 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 317 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 835 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 481 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 181 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 90 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53 |
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 Joye born?
The states with the most babies named Joye are Texas, South Carolina and Oklahoma, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 246 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 127 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 104 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Joye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joye is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Joye 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, Joye is the fourth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 969 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Joye
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 Joye and names like it
- Compare Joye and JoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sJoye peaked in 1932.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joye since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Joye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.