Joya
- #5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,796since 1942
Joya over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Joya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #4,025 | 31 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 |
| 1992 | #3,091 | 37 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 43 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 |
| 1976 | #2,174 | 39 |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1970 | #2,779 | 25 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #3,057 | 18 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #1,914 | 36 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,424 | 25 |
| 1962 | #2,357 | 26 |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
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| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
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| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 |
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First appearance
1942
The first year at least five girls were named Joya! It came in at #4,124, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Joya is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Joya in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,833 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #5,099)
- 984 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #5,099)
- 937 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #5,099)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1965 at #1,914 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 37,567
- Highest: 1 in 37,567 girls born in 1976 were named Joya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,914 in 1965, was only 1 in 49,032 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 16.1% of all girls named Joya (290) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 33 | #3,665 (1946) | #4,083 |
| 1950s | 104 | #2,595 (1953) | #3,938 |
| 1960s | 197 | #1,914 (1965) | #2,997 |
| 1970s | 269 | #2,174 (1976) | #2,843 |
| 1980s | 276 | #2,645 (1982) | #3,269 |
| 1990s | 287 | #2,695 (1990) | #3,973 |
| 2000s | 290 | #3,654 (2002) | #4,694 |
| 2010s | 222 | #4,755 (2013) | #5,938 |
| 2020s | 118 | #5,099 (2025) | #6,090 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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