How popular is “Joy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1883	5	0.000023047		5	-100%
1885	9	0.000037367	9		100%
1886	6	0.0000235	6		100%
1887	7	0.000028295	7		100%
1888	10	0.000033392	10		100%
1889	20	0.000069217	20		100%
1890	10	0.000033178	10		100%
1891	14	0.000048836	14		100%
1892	22	0.000065795	16	6	45%
1893	10	0.000030748	10		100%
1894	21	0.000062004	21		100%
1895	24	0.000068372	24		100%
1896	24	0.000067136	18	6	50%
1897	36	0.000103759	30	6	67%
1898	25	0.000065539	20	5	60%
1899	28	0.000082539	23	5	64%
1900	37	0.000082175	27	10	46%
1901	25	0.000072294	25		100%
1902	47	0.000121531	38	9	62%
1903	39	0.000102308	30	9	54%
1904	46	0.000114007	36	10	57%
1905	44	0.000103793	38	6	73%
1906	47	0.000109697	40	7	70%
1907	45	0.000096693	38	7	69%
1908	38	0.000077765	38		100%
1909	60	0.000117365	54	6	80%
1910	59	0.00009988	48	11	63%
1911	69	0.000107097	63	6	83%
1912	78	0.000078942	68	10	74%
1913	142	0.000124878	120	22	69%
1914	182	0.0001285	158	24	74%
1915	225	0.000122788	190	35	69%
1916	256	0.00013234	214	42	67%
1917	297	0.000148001	256	41	72%
1918	340	0.000156602	303	37	78%
1919	380	0.000180074	322	58	69%
1920	424	0.000187391	376	48	77%
1921	439	0.000188048	392	47	79%
1922	513	0.0002241	447	66	74%
1923	580	0.000251902	540	40	86%
1924	622	0.000261168	578	44	86%
1925	833	0.000357005	772	61	85%
1926	941	0.00040986	892	49	90%
1927	1190	0.000513073	1127	63	89%
1928	1138	0.000503331	1091	47	92%
1929	1182	0.000539194	1138	44	93%
1930	1320	0.000593715	1268	52	92%
1931	1276	0.000606352	1224	52	92%
1932	1400	0.000663101	1361	39	94%
1933	1330	0.000665184	1291	39	94%
1934	1383	0.000665923	1342	41	94%
1935	1391	0.000665582	1349	42	94%
1936	1530	0.000736434	1483	47	94%
1937	1281	0.000601219	1236	45	93%
1938	1397	0.000631391	1372	25	96%
1939	1286	0.000583632	1259	27	96%
1940	1339	0.000581495	1310	29	96%
1941	1575	0.000646439	1550	25	97%
1942	1629	0.000596306	1592	37	95%
1943	1638	0.000580324	1610	28	97%
1944	1483	0.000551285	1456	27	96%
1945	1406	0.000529984	1390	16	98%
1946	1592	0.000498231	1573	19	98%
1947	1831	0.000508283	1815	16	98%
1948	1644	0.000476174	1627	17	98%
1949	1661	0.000476645	1642	19	98%
1950	1795	0.000512366	1775	20	98%
1951	2027	0.000550256	2012	15	99%
1952	2304	0.000606634	2276	28	98%
1953	2316	0.00060099	2307	9	99%
1954	2387	0.000599642	2367	20	98%
1955	2406	0.000599241	2389	17	99%
1956	2834	0.000687357	2819	15	99%
1957	2945	0.000700833	2929	16	99%
1958	2790	0.000674907	2764	26	98%
1959	2897	0.000696731	2880	17	99%
1960	2796	0.000673116	2776	20	99%
1961	2631	0.000635154	2608	23	98%
1962	2443	0.000605396	2427	16	99%
1963	2197	0.00055505	2181	16	99%
1964	2238	0.000575676	2219	19	98%
1965	1982	0.000546691	1975	7	99%
1966	2108	0.000606504	2090	18	98%
1967	1900	0.000559664	1886	14	99%
1968	1918	0.000567722	1904	14	99%
1969	1710	0.000492041	1691	19	98%
1970	1789	0.000496047	1773	16	98%
1971	1837	0.000535201	1826	11	99%
1972	1828	0.000581611	1817	11	99%
1973	1711	0.000567141	1697	14	98%
1974	2781	0.000914803	2757	24	98%
1975	2316	0.000767041	2306	10	99%
1976	2091	0.000689121	2076	15	99%
1977	2118	0.000666773	2100	18	98%
1978	1959	0.000617228	1946	13	99%
1979	1844	0.000554253	1821	23	98%
1980	1726	0.000501088	1717	9	99%
1981	1635	0.000472629	1622	13	98%
1982	1351	0.000385124	1335	16	98%
1983	1204	0.000347641	1191	13	98%
1984	1166	0.000334217	1155	11	98%
1985	1136	0.000318287	1123	13	98%
1986	1047	0.000294343	1036	11	98%
1987	874	0.0002424	862	12	97%
1988	856	0.000231662	837	19	96%
1989	818	0.000212774	802	16	96%
1990	714	0.000180646	697	17	95%
1991	727	0.000186637	710	17	95%
1992	624	0.000162446	616	8	97%
1993	646	0.00017134	632	14	96%
1994	600	0.000161392	589	11	96%
1995	599	0.000163565	593	6	98%
1996	600	0.00016451	587	13	96%
1997	593	0.000163552	580	13	96%
1998	588	0.000159861	583	5	98%
1999	605	0.000163785	596	9	97%
2000	618	0.000163496	607	11	96%
2001	587	0.00015681	580	7	98%
2002	600	0.000160501	590	10	97%
2003	595	0.000156483	583	12	96%
2004	621	0.000162526	615	6	98%
2005	593	0.000154232	584	9	97%
2006	617	0.000155958	608	9	97%
2007	615	0.000153839	604	11	96%
2008	583	0.000148321	575	8	97%
2009	597	0.000156276	587	10	97%
2010	648	0.000175337	631	17	95%
2011	595	0.000162666	585	10	97%
2012	633	0.000173075	622	11	97%
2013	665	0.000182408	651	14	96%
2014	721	0.00019453	698	23	94%
2015	746	0.000201572	734	12	97%
2016	964	0.000262764	954	10	98%
2017	985	0.000275432	968	17	97%
2018	913	0.000259678	902	11	98%
2019	931	0.000268228	917	14	97%
2020	806	0.000241276	788	18	96%
2021	792	0.00023377	779	13	97%
2022	705	0.000208387	685	20	94%
2023	695	0.000209894	680	15	96%
2024	722	0.000216914	702	20	94%

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