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How popular is “Joyce” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joyce” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joyce” 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 “Joyce” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joyce” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joyce” 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
1882 7 0.000031598 7 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 100%
1890 17 0.000056403 17 100%
1891 17 0.000059301 17 100%
1892 14 0.000041869 14 100%
1893 20 0.000061496 20 100%
1894 22 0.000064956 22 100%
1895 29 0.000082616 29 100%
1896 37 0.000103501 37 100%
1897 27 0.000077819 27 100%
1898 40 0.000104862 40 100%
1899 45 0.000132652 45 100%
1900 64 0.000142141 59 5 84%
1901 43 0.000124345 43 100%
1902 69 0.000178418 69 100%
1903 73 0.000191501 73 100%
1904 56 0.000138791 56 100%
1905 86 0.000202868 79 7 84%
1906 77 0.000179717 77 100%
1907 86 0.000184791 80 6 86%
1908 110 0.00022511 105 5 91%
1909 96 0.000187785 96 100%
1910 135 0.000228538 135 100%
1911 143 0.000221954 136 7 90%
1912 236 0.000238851 222 14 88%
1913 284 0.000249756 273 11 92%
1914 474 0.000334664 456 18 92%
1915 677 0.000369456 640 37 89%
1916 782 0.000404256 746 36 91%
1917 1061 0.000528716 1017 44 92%
1918 1307 0.000601996 1261 46 93%
1919 1301 0.000616516 1255 46 93%
1920 1585 0.000700508 1523 62 92%
1921 1893 0.000810879 1840 53 94%
1922 2056 0.000898148 2016 40 96%
1923 2709 0.001176557 2670 39 97%
1924 3584 0.001504864 3533 51 97%
1925 4407 0.00188874 4364 43 98%
1926 5758 0.002507943 5704 54 98%
1927 6762 0.002915462 6684 78 98%
1928 7311 0.003233614 7244 67 98%
1929 8672 0.003955914 8596 76 98%
1930 9734 0.0043782 9658 76 98%
1931 10664 0.005067506 10580 84 98%
1932 11453 0.005424643 11362 91 98%
1933 11250 0.005626556 11191 59 99%
1934 11528 0.005550805 11459 69 99%
1935 11454 0.005480645 11368 86 98%
1936 12060 0.005804836 11988 72 99%
1937 11895 0.005582751 11809 86 99%
1938 12769 0.005771107 12697 72 99%
1939 13455 0.006106355 13393 62 99%
1940 14885 0.006464193 14802 83 99%
1941 15749 0.006463979 15683 66 99%
1942 16807 0.006152313 16728 79 99%
1943 16567 0.005869497 16486 81 99%
1944 14832 0.005513593 14768 64 99%
1945 13996 0.005275716 13950 46 99%
1946 15265 0.004777319 15209 56 99%
1947 15960 0.004430476 15914 46 99%
1948 14416 0.004175503 14381 35 100%
1949 13610 0.003905559 13572 38 99%
1950 13444 0.003837461 13416 28 100%
1951 13505 0.003666112 13472 33 100%
1952 13161 0.00346524 13125 36 99%
1953 12824 0.003327759 12797 27 100%
1954 12120 0.003044684 12088 32 99%
1955 11311 0.002817129 11285 26 100%
1956 11121 0.002697284 11091 30 99%
1957 10192 0.002425429 10157 35 99%
1958 9059 0.002191391 9032 27 99%
1959 8551 0.002056522 8520 31 99%
1960 7783 0.001873699 7757 26 99%
1961 7020 0.00169471 6996 24 99%
1962 6123 0.001517332 6096 27 99%
1963 5240 0.001323834 5221 19 99%
1964 4875 0.001253985 4861 14 99%
1965 4142 0.001142479 4128 14 99%
1966 3409 0.000980822 3399 10 99%
1967 2960 0.000871897 2945 15 99%
1968 2513 0.00074384 2496 17 99%
1969 2239 0.000644257 2227 12 99%
1970 2043 0.000566475 2030 13 99%
1971 1707 0.000497326 1693 14 98%
1972 1358 0.000432072 1349 9 99%
1973 1233 0.000408699 1226 7 99%
1974 1263 0.000415461 1263 100%
1975 1126 0.000372923 1126 100%
1976 947 0.000312098 947 100%
1977 854 0.00026885 847 7 98%
1978 776 0.000244496 776 100%
1979 738 0.000221821 738 100%
1980 739 0.000214545 731 8 98%
1981 694 0.000200614 687 7 98%
1982 663 0.000188999 663 100%
1983 635 0.000183349 635 100%
1984 593 0.000169975 593 100%
1985 542 0.000151859 537 5 98%
1986 551 0.000154902 537 14 95%
1987 569 0.000157809 561 8 97%
1988 475 0.000128551 475 100%
1989 500 0.000130058 489 11 96%
1990 517 0.000130804 512 5 98%
1991 446 0.000114498 446 100%
1992 441 0.000114806 441 100%
1993 429 0.000113785 423 6 97%
1994 374 0.000100601 374 100%
1995 376 0.000102672 371 5 97%
1996 350 0.000095964 343 7 96%
1997 331 0.000091291 331 100%
1998 332 0.000090261 332 100%
1999 337 0.000091232 337 100%
2000 367 0.000097092 362 5 97%
2001 370 0.000098841 370 100%
2002 358 0.000095766 358 100%
2003 345 0.000090734 345 100%
2004 351 0.000091863 345 6 97%
2005 324 0.000084269 324 100%
2006 325 0.00008215 325 100%
2007 347 0.0000868 342 5 97%
2008 318 0.000080902 318 100%
2009 287 0.000075127 287 100%
2010 303 0.000081986 303 100%
2011 264 0.000072175 264 100%
2012 304 0.00008312 298 6 96%
2013 333 0.000091341 328 5 97%
2014 360 0.00009713 353 7 96%
2015 340 0.000091869 332 8 95%
2016 390 0.000106305 385 5 97%
2017 331 0.000092556 325 6 96%
2018 284 0.000080776 284 100%
2019 294 0.000084703 287 7 95%
2020 265 0.000079328 260 5 96%
2021 279 0.000082351 273 6 96%
2022 268 0.000079216 268 100%
2023 242 0.000073085 236 6 95%
2024 251 0.000075409 240 11 91%

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