Girls' name · since 1931
Joyice
Joyice has 188 recorded births since 1931 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1952 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #20,455 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 188
- born since 1931
- 1950s
- peak decade
188 girls have been named Joyice since 1931, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Joyice has 188 recorded births among girls since 1931, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1931 to 1961.
- #20,455 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 188 born since 1931
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Joyice ranks #20,455 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 188 born since 1931, peaking in the 1950s.
- #20,455 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 188
- born since 1931
- 1950s
- peak decade
Joyice's 188 recorded births place it above 71.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joyice's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Joyice's SSA record in two at 1950 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1931, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1952 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Joyice popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1931–1961
- Peak year (1952)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Joyice by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (87 births, 46% of the file).
1950s was Joyice's strongest decade.
87 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Joyice births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 31
1930s
31 births
- 1940s
1940s
54 births
- 1950s
1950s
87 births
- 1960s 16
1960s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 87 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Joyice's decade-level peak was the 1950s (87 total births); usage has since declined to 16 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Joyice: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1952)
Similar record span (~30 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1931–1961 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Joyice 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 August 2026.