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Joice

Girls' name

Form of Joyce

Joice has been given to 557 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1942, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Joice, 2017

1 in 397,000

Joice over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joice: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joyce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joice means

Joice is a form of Joyce.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Joice is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʒɔj.si/ and /ˈʒɔj.sɨ/ for Joice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Joice → Joyce. The family’s meaning is “lord”, recorded in English with the source elements iudh.

Origin, language, and formation

Joice is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joyce.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Joice is pronounced /ˈʒɔj.si/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 557 girls were recorded with the name Joice between 1921 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1942; its best national rank was #1,732 in 1942.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Joice?

Joice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 397,000
9 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 192,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
275,497 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joice sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 275,497 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joice was born before 1945 — so the typical Joice is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
200
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1940s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (166).

Is Joice rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1942 (24)
Years since peak
83
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,732
1942

Spellings of Joice

Joice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 33.5% against Joice's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Joice around the world

Where Joice ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2005–2005
    #5,471
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joice by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,732
1942
Peak year
1942
24 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
557
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joice

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Joice

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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