Joy
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#419
up +21 places
2025 births
747
up +40 births
All-time births
140,694
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1957
- 2,929 births
- Best rank
- #109
- in 1974
- First recorded
- 1885
- #774 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1965
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 141 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19572,929#143Peak
- 19592,880#146
- 19562,819#140
- 19602,776#152
- 19582,764#147
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #109 in 1974 · peak births 2,929 in 1957
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 2% boys■ 98% girls
2,630 boys · 140,694 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Joy has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.