girls:
135 births since 1978
#5581 (2nd percentile)
overall:
135 births since 1978
#7604 (2nd percentile)
The name Joyous is the #7,604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 135 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,581 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1978.
Joyous first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (first recorded for girls in 1978). Birth data for Joyous is available in 22 out of the 45 years between 1978 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Joyous reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joyous".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Joyous.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Joyous", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Joyous.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Joyous. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Joyous is pronounced as JOY-uhs, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Joyous? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Joyous. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Joyous, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OY1 AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker