Joy (given name)

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

People with the given name Joy

• Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
• 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 (born 1944), American radio psychologist
• Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
• Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
• 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 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 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 Padgett (born 1947), American politician
• Joy Quigley (born 1948), New Zealand politician
• Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
• Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
• Joy Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
• Joy Williams (singer) (born 1982), American pop singer
• Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
• Joy Williams (American writer) (born 1944), American author

Fictional characters

Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.

See also

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