Joyce is an English and French name, that derived from the Breton masculine name Judoc meaning ‘lord’. After the Middle Ages, the name developed into a predominantly female name.
Joyce is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Joyce isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Joyce ranks 822. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Joyce. In total, there are currently 501,628 people – children, adults and seniors – named Joyce living in the United States, which is approximately 0.15 % of the entire population.
Joyce is an English and French name, that derived from the Breton masculine name Judoc meaning ‘lord’. After the Middle Ages, the name developed into a predominantly female name.
In the US,... Joyce was one of the most used names for girls during the 1930s and 1940s.
#11 - this is the highest position Joyce has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Joyce reached this top position was in the last century, in 1938, when 12,767 newborn girls were named Joyce. But as our statistics show, Joyce has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1886, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Joyce is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Joyce was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 266 newborns were given the name Joyce, making them rank #891. Although the name Joyce was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Joyce are still there in our contemporary times.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Joyce. Because: There are women and girls named Joyce in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Joyce is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in South Dakota, where Joyce ranks on place 27. The greatest chance of meeting Joyce, however, is in Vermont, where one in 164 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 308 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,366 women and girls for their name before you once get Joyce as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Joyce is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Joyce and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Joyce, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Yoyo
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Joyce
Joyce
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
Y
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
Y
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Joyce sounds like this:
