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Joie

#2,792 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Joseph or Josephine

Joie has been given to 3,210 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,792 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 85 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Joie, 2025

1 in 54,300

Joie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Joie over time

In 2025, Joie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19152025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Joie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Joseph or Josephine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joie means

Joie is a diminutive of Joseph or Josephine.

Origin, language, and formation

Joie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph and Josephine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,968 girls were recorded with the name Joie between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,668 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,760 in 2020 to #2,792 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,194 in 2015 to #2,792 in 2025.

In the United States, 242 boys were recorded with the name Joie between 1928 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1961; its best national rank was #2,035 in 1961.

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 Joie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,792
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joie 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 2025 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joie was born before 2000 — so the typical Joie is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,715
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (592).

Is Joie 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
+113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.8%
Peak was 2019 (85)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,668
1976

Spellings of Joie

Joie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 10.8% against Joie's 0.06%.

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.

Where Joie is used

Across 2016–2025, Joie was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 25,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 20,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Joie around the world

Where Joie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Joie

People whose public names include Joie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Joie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joie. Linked forms have their own page here.

JoyJoey

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,792
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 32
Best rank ever
#1,668
1976
Peak year
2019
85 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,968
Count in 2025
61

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,035
1961
Peak year
1961
17 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
242
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joie

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

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Names with a curve like Joie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Joie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Joie

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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