The JOYCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,843	948	0.013	126
United States (1880 census)	7,406	817	0.015	148
Change since 1880	+26437	-131	-0.002	-22
Other Countries
Australia	3,275	464	0.02	200
United Kingdom	13,102	451	0.029	285

Top States for JOYCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	3,169	207	0.050	499
North Carolina	2,645	409	0.033	329
New York	2,320	711	0.012	122
Pennsylvania	2,296	510	0.019	187
Florida	2,176	896	0.014	136
Top States for JOYCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	3,169	207	0.050	499
New Hampshire	462	349	0.037	374
Maine	422	570	0.033	331
North Carolina	2,645	409	0.033	329
Virginia	1,542	542	0.022	218

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOYCE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOYCE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOYCE in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOYCE by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOYCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JOYCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JOYCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JOYCE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	413	1.22
Mixed Race	396	1.17
Asian/Pacific	166	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	98	0.29
White (Caucasian)	30,229	89.32
Black/African American	2,542	7.51

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOYCE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JOYCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOYCE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.