Joya
#5,152 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joya has been given to 1,796 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #5,152 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 43 recorded.
Babies named Joya, 2025
1 in 133,000
Joya over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Joya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 64,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,152
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joya was born before 1990 — so the typical Joya is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 16.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,763
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (290).
Is Joya 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
- +1,920
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,031
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +979
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.19×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.1%
- Peak was 1990 (43)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Joya
Joya is not the most common spelling — Joyce is, with 14.4% against Joya's 0.05%.
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 Joya is used
Across 1910–2025, Joya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 277,455 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
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. Joya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Joya around the world
Where Joya 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 & Wales1997–2025#4,201in 2025
- France1994–2025#2,009in 2025
- Canada2003–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia1959–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Joya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Joya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.