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Joye

Gender
Girl
Say it
JOY
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Joye is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “joy”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Joye mean?

English: spelling of Joy

“joy”

A spelling of Joy, from the English word, which came from Norman French joie.

Is Joye a girl's or a boy's name?

Joye is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Joye in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Joye, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1932, with 77 girls. It first appears in the records in 1907.

Half of all the girls named Joye in the US since 1880 were born between 1934 and 1964, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 862 girls in the US were given Joye or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #384, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1907Busiest: 77 in 19322025
Joye in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20220–
20218#11,141
20207#12,137
20195#15,532
20185#15,677
20179#10,685
20167#12,871
20156#14,477
20140–
20130–
20120–
20117#13,339
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20080–
20070–
20060–
20058#11,828
20045#16,092
20039#10,420
20028#11,102
20018#11,013
200013#7,574
19998#10,338
19987#11,132
19978#9,797
199610#8,127
19957#10,509
199412#7,091
199314#6,257
199210#8,057
19919#8,580
199011#7,297
198911#6,949
198810#7,106
19879#7,348
19860–
198512#5,676
198411#5,898
198316#4,475
198224#3,417
198120#3,858
198025#3,318
197932#2,724
197823#3,283
197722#3,365
197631#2,545
197538#2,196
197436#2,213
197341#1,979
197230#2,398
197131#2,427
197031#2,395
196935#2,134
196838#1,940
196732#2,079
196635#1,952
196540#1,801
196449#1,635
196340#1,838
196246#1,671
196156#1,498
196063#1,384
195965#1,325
195854#1,447
195769#1,261
195669#1,248
195567#1,228
195465#1,228
195351#1,357
195255#1,284
195151#1,302
195047#1,332
194941#1,436
194867#1,084
194756#1,203
194670#1,005
194561#984
194456#1,045
194358#1,048
194255#1,055
194168#887
194052#989
193960#903
193858#931
193755#929
193663#853
193565#855
193450#973
193366#820
193277#768
193166#844
193068#867
192951#1,015
192868#888
192762#963
192647#1,096
192541#1,210
192444#1,188
192333#1,388
192223#1,785
192131#1,476
192024#1,708
191925#1,604
191824#1,645
191718#1,922
191618#1,867
191512#2,383
19146#3,187
19137#2,538
19128#2,143
19116#2,191
19100–
19095#2,208
19080–
190711#1,206

Names like Joye

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Joye

Names related to Joye

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Joye: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/joye, updated 20 October 2026.