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The name Joyce is of Old French origin, and means joyous. The table below indicates the number of times the name Joyce has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Joyce**
Use of the Name Joyce for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
502,818	119,773	11,572	3,477	1,763	682	338

The table below indicates the number of times the name Joyce has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Joyce first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1882, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Joyce**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1882	773	7
1883	869	6
1884
1885	876	7
1886
1887	990	7
1888	770	12
1889	774	12
1890	658	17
1891	652	17
1892	813	14
1893	651	20
1894	636	22
1895	553	29
1896	483	37
1897	589	27
1898	488	40
1899	435	45
1900	429	61
1901	454	43
1902	379	69
1903	378	72
1904	431	56
1905	377	81
1906	390	78
1907	396	80
1908	349	105
1909	378	96
1910	335	135
1911	341	135
1912	306	221
1913	284	274
1914	247	456
1915	238	641
1916	221	746
1917	186	1,016	1000	43
1918	170	1,261	982	47
1919	173	1,259
1920	153	1,523	884	61
1921	137	1,844	963	53
1922	126	2,017
1923	103	2,674
1924	83	3,530	989	51
1925	59	4,363
1926	44	5,697	910	55
1927	35	6,690	746	78
1928	30	7,253	809	66
1929	23	8,581	711	77
1930	18	9,644	726	76
1931	15	10,566	651	84
1932	12	11,362	630	90
1933	12	11,182	803	59
1934	12	11,463	735	69
1935	12	11,353	634	86
1936	12	11,985	702	72
1937	11	11,816	632	86
1938	11	12,688	722	72
1939	12	13,391	775	62
1940	13	14,810	665	83
1941	13	15,661	771	65
1942	13	16,744	718	80
1943	16	16,443	709	81
1944	18	14,766	785	64
1945	18	13,934	962	45
1946	20	15,179	871	57
1947	20	15,901
1948	21	14,363
1949	26	13,558
1950	27	13,418
1951	28	13,439
1952	27	13,125
1953	26	12,791
1954	28	12,087
1955	29	11,269
1956	30	11,092
1957	40	10,145
1958	46	9,025
1959	50	8,512
1960	58	7,742
1961	62	6,998
1962	74	6,096
1963	83	5,227
1964	87	4,865
1965	89	4,128
1966	100	3,403
1967	116	2,942
1968	128	2,499
1969	146	2,237
1970	164	2,035
1971	183	1,695
1972	206	1,355
1973	209	1,230
1974	200	1,273
1975	219	1,127
1976	248	947
1977	284	845
1978	299	774
1979	320	740
1980	330	729
1981	340	689
1982	356	659
1983	359	635
1984	381	593
1985	416	537
1986	411	535
1987	406	560
1988	478	476
1989	481	492
1990	479	510
1991	527	444
1992	539	437
1993	561	425
1994	601	374
1995	605	371
1996	651	344
1997	663	331
1998	685	332
1999	677	336
2000	669	361
2001	678	367
2002	705	353
2003	736	344
2004	758	338
Totals:		502,818		1,762

During the last 125 years, parents have used Joyce as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Joyce appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 121 times during the last 125 years.

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