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Joy name popularity
Joy has been given to 143,324 babies in the United States since 1883.
It peaked in 1957, when 2,945 babies got the name, and its best rank was #201 in 1974.
In 2025, 774 babies were named Joy (#833 in the country), 74% below the peak. That is up 4% from 2015.
About 98% of babies named Joy were girls and 2% were boys.
An estimated 106K people named Joy are alive in the US today, with a median age of 55.
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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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