Entry № 5021 · English origin

Joyce Joyce — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOYS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Joyful (Joyce Carol Oates, prolific American novelist)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "joyful (joyce carol oates, prolific american novelist)".

Joyce is from the Old French Josce, ultimately from the Breton saint Iodoc ("lord"). Joyce Wieland — pioneering Canadian feminist artist.

Joyful (Joyce Carol Oates, prolific American novelist) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Joyce
Transliteration
Joyce
Pronunciation
/ dʒɔɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Joyce stands.

Joyce does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Joyces before her.

Real people
Joyce Carol Oates
American novelist.
born 1938
Joyce Banda
President of Malawi.
born 1950
In fiction
Joyce
them.
1969

Names connected to Joyce.

The number behind Joyce.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Joyce reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.