first name
JOYCE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 324,179 people named Joyce, 76% reported their origin as White, 15.9% as Black and 3.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Joyce peaked in 1942, when 16,807 babies got the name.
At least 512,232 babies have been given the name since 1882. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Joyce by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #27. The largest share of babies named Joyce, 43.9%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Joyce is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Joyce has been most common in Vermont (1.8×), Kentucky (1.7×), and West Virginia (1.7×), and least common in Nevada (0.19×).
505,866 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Joyce
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Joyce, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Joyce ranks #1,052 of 156,621, with 32,875 people. See Joyce as a last name
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