Joice
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: English surname, spelling variant of Joyce.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 83K
- USUnited States1 in 1Kas Joyce
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Joice itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
324,179 named Joyce, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joyce in US United States, CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English surname, spelling variant of Joyce.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joice 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 324,179as Joyce | 1 in 1K | 324K | Joyce | 113 |
| BR Brazil | #365 | 100,072 | 1 in 2.1K | 128K | Joice | 146 |
| AO Angola | #686 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Joice | 17 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Joice | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 648as Joyce | 1 in 16K | 648 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 463as Joyce | 1 in 1.6K | 463 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | #911 | 348as Joyce | 1 in 15K | 348 | Joice | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | #289 | 14as Joyce | 1 in 764K | 14 | Joyce | 22 |
324,179 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joice Hethb. 1756USAfrican American enslaved person and sideshow performer
- Joice NanKivell Lochb. 1887AUAustralian writer, humanitarian and philanthropist (1887-1982)
- Joice Maduakab. 1973GBBritish sprinter
- Joice Berthb. 1976BRBrazilian writer, activist, urban planner
- Joice Hasselmannb. 1978BRjournalist, politician and Federal Deputy of Brazil (2019–2023)
- Joice Silvab. 1983BROlympic wrestler
- Joice Takaidzab. 1983ZWZimbabwean netball player
- Joice Cristina de Souza Rodriguesb. 1986BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1986)
- Joice Coelhob. 1993BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1993)
- Joice P. ConstantiniBRBrazilian entomologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 465 | #48,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 449 | #44,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 435 | #48,530 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Joice mean, and where does it come from?
- English surname, spelling variant of Joyce. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Joice a male or female name?
- Joice is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Joice?
- In the etymology graph, Joyce and Joisse are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Joice have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 324 thousand people named Joyce, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Joice most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joice is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Joice?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 100,072 people named Joice in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Joice compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Joice is the 289th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joiceThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Joice” — the 289th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.