Lajoyce — girls' name
321 babies named Lajoyce in U.S. Social Security records since 1929, with the highest year being 1948. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Lajoyce was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Lajoyce in 1948 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lajoyce
The Social Security Administration has registered 321 babies named Lajoyce between 1929 and 1992, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lajoyce currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lajoyce performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lajoyce shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Lajoyce in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lajoyce 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 321 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.
Lajoyce at a glance
Last recorded 1992Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lajoyce popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1992–1929
- Peak year (1948)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1992.
321 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1948 with 12 births in a single year.
Lajoyce by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 67 births that decade — 21% of Lajoyce's all-time total
Lajoyce decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Lajoyce's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Lajoyce by state
Where Lajoyce concentrates geographically — total births since 1929
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.5% of nationwide
- Missouri 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.5% 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, 1929–1992 (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.