girls:
508.9k births since 1882
#63 (99th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1900
#2343 (49th percentile)
overall:
511.7k births since 1882
#129 (98th percentile)
The name Joyce is the #129 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 511,737 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 98.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #63 (98.9% percentile) for all time with 508,856 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #2,343 (48.9% percentile) for all time with 2,881 births since 1900.
Joyce first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1900 for boys). Birth data for Joyce is available in 140 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (140 years for girls and 91 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Joyce has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Joyce reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 98.3% percentile (ranked #11) with 11,123 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 12,587 births per million (ranked 98.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joyce ranks #718 for girls (24.2% percentile) with 135 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Joyce reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #444) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 85 births per million (ranked 16.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Joyce ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joyce".
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