Joya

Peak · girls
1965 · 36 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,796
since 1942

Joya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Joya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,914, 1965girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#5,09925
2024#6,93216
2023#5,75221
2022#5,98420
2021#6,69117
2020#6,08319
2019#5,61222
2018#7,10016
2017#7,84014
2016#5,44524
2015#6,03621
2014#5,31025
2013#4,75529
2012#4,83629
2011#5,54324
2010#6,90418
2009#4,80530
2008#6,55920
2007#5,23027
2006#4,81129
2005#4,48730
2004#4,70728
2003#3,86935
2002#3,65436
2001#4,02531
2000#4,79124
1999#5,03921
1998#4,02328
1997#5,01020
1996#3,02839
1995#3,42232
1994#4,37623
1993#4,39323
1992#3,09137
1991#4,65021
1990#2,69543
1989#4,02024
1988#3,03933
1987#3,03131
1986#3,55424
1985#3,62123
1984#3,61322
1983#3,24225
1982#2,64535
1981#2,98629
1980#2,94030
1979#2,79531
1978#3,51221
1977#2,83828
1976#2,17439
1975#2,35734
1974#3,00823
1973#2,83024
1972#3,40418
1971#2,73626
1970#2,77925
1969#3,61915
1968#3,05718
1967#3,08517
1966#2,75220
1965#1,91436
1964#3,24416
1963#2,42425
1962#2,35726
1961#4,00911
1960#3,51213
1959#3,10415
1958#3,37913
1957#4,9187
1956#2,92916
1955#5,2086
1954#3,9679
1953#2,59517
1952#4,4837
1951#4,8336
1950#3,9628
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1948#3,8838
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1946#3,6658
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1944#4,0546
1943#4,6915
1942#4,1246
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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.

See more about Joya
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
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s33#3,665 (1946)#4,083
1950s104#2,595 (1953)#3,938
1960s197#1,914 (1965)#2,997
1970s269#2,174 (1976)#2,843
1980s276#2,645 (1982)#3,269
1990s287#2,695 (1990)#3,973
2000s290#3,654 (2002)#4,694
2010s222#4,755 (2013)#5,938
2020s118#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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