Joyce

At the 2020 census, 32,875 Americans bore the surname Joyce — 1,052nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,092.

By the numbers

People: 32,875
Rank: 1,052nd
How common: 1 in 9,092
Per 100,000: 11.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Medieval (Middle English) given name from Old French Josse, name of a seventh century saint Latinized as Iodocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”), from Proto-Celtic *yowdos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Joyce described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941)Irish novelist and poet
William Joyce (1906–1946)British fascist and propaganda broadcaster
Alice Joyce (1890–1955)American actress
Brenda Joyce (1917–2009)American film actress
William Joyce (born 1957)American children's writer
Barnaby Joyce (born 1967)Australian politician, 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Joseph Joyce (born 1985)English professional boxer
Kara Lynn Joyce (born 1985)American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion

People named Joyce with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Joyce

Also a first name

Joyce has been given to 512,232 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1942. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.