Joye
Recorded 1907–2025 · United States
Joye was most popular in 1932, when 77 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,420 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,481 people named Joye.
Joye over time
How old is the name Joye?
Joye first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1907, which makes it about 118 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 107 of the 119 years since.
How many people are named Joye?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,481 American births named Joye between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,027 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Joye in 2025?
6 American babies were named Joye in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Joye getting more or less popular?
Joye is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Joye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Joye is a girl’s name — 99.8% of the 3,481 Americans given it were girls and 0.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Joye?
Roughly 2,027 Americans named Joye are alive today — 58% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 66 years old, and half are between 52 and 77.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Joye is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org