Meaning and history
Joy comes directly from the English word, through Norman French joie from Latin gaudium, and has been regularly used as a given name since the late 19th century.
20062006: 608 births, rank #501
2007: 604 births, rank #520
2008: 575 births, rank #535
2009: 587 births, rank #516
2010: 632 births, rank #477
20112011: 585 births, rank #502
2012: 622 births, rank #495
2013: 653 births, rank #470
2014: 699 births, rank #457
2015: 734 births, rank #430
20162016: 954 births, rank #352
2017: 968 births, rank #335
2018: 902 births, rank #353
2019: 918 births, rank #343
2020: 788 births, rank #395
20212021: 779 births, rank #407
2022: 688 births, rank #461
2023: 683 births, rank #450
2024: 707 births, rank #440
20252025: 747 births, rank #419
Joy rose from #440 to #419 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 2,929 births.