Girls' name · since 2012
Joyful
52 babies named Joyful in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 52
- total births
- 2012–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 60%
- born in that decade
Joyful sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 52 recorded since 2012.
Joyful has 52 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- 52 total births
- 2012–2025 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 60% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joyful's 52 recorded births place it above 52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joyful's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Joyful's SSA record in two at 2018 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2016, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Joyful popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Joyful by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Joyful's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Joyful births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
31 births
- 2020s
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 31 births (60% of all-time use).
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- Joyful's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (31 total births) through the 2020s (21) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joyful: Baby Name Since 2012 - 52 Births, Peak 2021." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joyful. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joyful draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.