Lajoie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: common secondary surname, also used independently since 1784, from la joie ‘joy’, hence a nickname for a happy, cheerful person
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫædʒwɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lajoie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K
- USUnited States1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
common secondary surname, also used independently since 1784, from la joie ‘joy’, hence a nickname for a happy, cheerful person.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lajoie is read(measured from records)
Lajoie is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English70%
Napoleon (Larry), US baseball
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
player
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French20%
de la joie, surnom de soldat ou d’une personne joyeuse.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lajoie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Lajoie | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Lajoie | 158 |
| US United States | 3,145 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Lajoie | 267 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 136 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lajoie | 45 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Lajoie | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Lajoie | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lajoie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
common secondary surname, also used independently since 1784, from la joie ‘joy’, hence a nickname for a happy, cheerful person.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Gérin-Lajoieb. 1824CACanadian politician (1824-1895)
- Nap Lajoieb. 1874USAmerican baseball player and manager (1874–1959)
- Claude Lajoieb. 1928CACanadian politician
- Andrée Lajoieb. 1933CACanadian jurist
- Jon Lajoieb. 1980CACanadian comedian and musician (born 1980)
- Corey LaJoieb. 1991USAmerican stock car racing driver
- Pamelab. 1992CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer
- Frédéric Lajoie-Gravelleb. 1993CACanadian association football player
- Pier-Gabriel Lajoieb. 1994CACanadian comic
- Marjorie Lajoieb. 2000CACanadian ice dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,148 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 184 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 182 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 171 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 101 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lajoie mean, and where does it come from?
- common secondary surname, also used independently since 1784, from la joie ‘joy’, hence a nickname for a happy, cheerful person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lajoie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫædʒwɑ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lajoie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Lajoie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lajoie.
- How common is the name Lajoie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,145 people named Lajoie in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lajoieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lajoie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.