Joy (given name)

Joy is a common unisex given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the female given name Joyce (name).

Joy

Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	English
Meaning	"joy", "happiness", "joyful"
Region of origin	England
Other names
Related names	Joyce, Joie

Notable people with the given name include:

People with the given name Joy

• Joy (singer) (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet (group)
• Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
• Joy Alukkas (born 1956), Indian businessman from Kerala
• Joy Ballard (born 1966), British Headteacher on Educating Cardiff
• Joy Banerjee (born 1963), Bengali cinema actor
• Joy Behar (born 1942), American comedian and actress
• Joy Bokiri (born 1998), Nigerian women's footballer
• Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
• Joy Browne (1944–2016), American radio psychologist
• Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
• Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
• Joy Cherian (born 1944), Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Joy Crookes (born 1998), British singer-songwriter
• Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
• Joy Destiny Tobing (born 1980), Indonesian gospel singer
• Joy Enriquez (born 1978), American singer and actress
• Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
• Joy Fleming (1944–2017), German singer
• Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
• Joy Garnett (born 1965) Canadian-American artist
• Joy Giovanni (born 1978), American actress, model, wrestler, and WWE Diva
• Joy Grieveson (born 1941), British track and field athlete
• Joy Paul Guilford (1897–1987), American psychologist
• Joy Harjo (born 1951), American poet
• Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
• Joy Kogawa (born 1935), Canadian poet and novelist
• Joy Lauren (born 1989), American actress
• Joy Lofthouse (1923–2017), British WW2 pilot
• Joy MacPhail (born 1952), Canadian politician
• Joy Mangano (born 1956), American inventor, and businesswoman
• Joy Marshall (1867–1903), New Zealand clergyman, teacher, tennis player, cricketer, and rugby footballer
• Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian mathematician
• Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
• Joy Mukherjee (1939–2012), Indian film actor and director
• Joy Ogwu (born 1946), Nigerian diplomat
• Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
• Joy Padgett (born 1947), American politician
• Joy Powell (born 1962), American activist
• Joy Quigley (born 1948), New Zealand politician
• Joy Reid (born 1968), American cable television host with the full name Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid
• Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
• Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
• Joy Sengupta (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
• Joy A. Thomas (1963–2020), American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
• Joy Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
• Joy Viado (1959–2016), Filipino comedian and actress
• Joy Williams (singer) (born 1982), American pop singer
• Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
• Joy Williams (American writer) (born 1944), American author
• Joy Wolfram (born 1989), Finnish nanoscientist
• Samantha Joy Mostyn, Sam Mostyn, Australian businesswoman and Governor-General.

Fictional characters

• Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.
• Nurse Joy, a nurse from the Pokémon TV series.
• Joy C. Cordero, a character from Huwag Kang Mangamba
• Joy Wang, the daughter in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022 film). Played by Stephanie Hsu.

See also

• Gioia (disambiguation), the Italian version of the name
• Joie, the French version of the name