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Baby name
Joy
Girl
Origin of the name
Joy comes from the English word joy.
Classic name
140,694births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 143rank at its peak, in 1957
Where babies named Joy are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Joy is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Joy is most common in Hawaii (2.5 times), Oklahoma (1.7) and Arkansas (1.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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