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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

Pronunciation	/ˈdʒɔɪ/
Gender	Unisex
Language	English
Origin
Language	English
Word/name	From the word joy
Derivation	English: joy
Meaning	"joy" "happiness" "joyful"
Region of origin	England
Other names
Variant form	Joye
Related names	Joyce, Joie, Gioia

Notable people with the given name include:

People with the given name Joy

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• 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 Browne (1944–2016), American radio psychologist
• Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
• Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
• Joy Carroll, Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
• Joy Cheek (born 1988), American basketball player
• Joy Cherian (born 1942), 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 Hohn, American politician
• Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
• Joy Kogawa (born 1935), Canadian poet and novelist
• Joy Laking (born 1950), Canadian visual artist and author
• 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 (1946–2025), Nigerian politician and 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 Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
• Joy Spence (born 1951), Jamaican master blender
• Joy A. Thomas (1963–2020), American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
• 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

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• 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

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

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