girls:
264 births since 1926
#5452 (5th percentile)
overall:
264 births since 1926
#7475 (3rd percentile)
The name Lajoy is the #7,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 264 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,452 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 264 births since 1926.
Lajoy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (first recorded for girls in 1926). Birth data for Lajoy is available in 34 out of the 96 years between 1926 and 2021. 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, Lajoy reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lajoy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lajoy is pronounced as luh-JOY, which has 2 syllables.
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