Joy

English word name

"joy"

Joy Origin and Meaning

The name Joy is a girl's name of English origin meaning "joy".

Joy is from an older generation of word names, which also included Merry, Bliss, and Glory -- all of which exert a certain amount of personality pressure on a child. One interesting name that means the same thing: Chara.

Joy began to be used as a name by the seventeenth century Puritans, with the idea of "being joyful in the Lord." It came into more general use in the late nineteenth central, part of the revival of virtue names. Her high point was in 1974, when she reached Number 109 on the popular names charts. Joy has also been often used as a middle name. Two recent bearers: comedian/TV personality Joy Behar and Joy Mangano, the inventor whose life was the basis of Oscar-nominated biopic Joy, starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Joy Popularity

• 467 US 2022
• 754 Nameberry 2024
• 280 Future 2028
• 508 England 2021
• 77 France 2022
• 483 Germany 2016
• 158 Netherlands 2015
• 203 Switzerland 2019