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Joyce
Pronunciation/ˈdʒɔɪs/ JOYSS
GenderMale Female
Origin
Word/nameBreton
Meaning"Lord"

The name Joyce is a contemporary given-name used for females and rarely used by males. As a family-name, it derived from the Old French Masculine name Josse, which derived from the Latin name Iudocus, the Latinized form of the Breton name Judoc meaning "lord". The name became rare after the 14th century, but later revived as a female given-name, which derived from the Middle English joise meaning "rejoice". [1]

Name's origin: Saint Joyce (Judoc)

Saint Joyce (Judoc in Breton, Joost in Dutch and Josse in French) (660–668), by Swiss painter, c. 1500–1520.
  • Saint Judoc (600–668) – Breton prince and hermit, the son of Judicael, king of Brittany. After his death, his body was claimed to be incorrupt, his beard and hair were trimmed from time to time by his followers (as was claimed for Saint Cuthbert). In 902, while the new minster at Winchester was being built, there arrived some refugees from Saint-Josse who brought with them the relics of their founder. Saint Grimbald enshrined them in the new church. Consequently, feasts of Josse were prominently kept at Winchester; His popularity in England may be deduced from the frequent Christian name Joyce (for both men and women) and from the use of his name in oaths by the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ("by God and by Seint Joce"). Through the discovery of a rival set of relics at Saint-Josse in 977 the cult of Josse also spread from Northern France to Flanders (where he is sometimes called Joost), Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, and Austria, where he is represented on the mausoleum of Maximilian in Innsbruck.[1]

As a first name

There are several notable individuals with the name Joyce:

Art

Business

  • Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef and restaurateur
  • Joyce Hall (1891–1982), American businessman and founder of Hallmark Cards
  • Joyce Nicholson (1919), Australian author and businesswoman

Film, television, and theater

Literature and print

Music

Politics

  • Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, Conservative member of the House of Lords
  • Joyce Banda (born 1951), Malawian Member of Parliament
  • Joyce Beatty (born 1950), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
  • Joyce Butler (1910–1992), British Labour Co-operative politician
  • Joyce Cusack (born 1942), member of the Florida House of Representatives
  • Joyce Fairbairn (born 1939), Canadian Senator and first woman Leader of the Government in the Senate
  • Joyce Gemayel wife of former President of Lebanon Amin Gemayel and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel
  • Joyce Hens Green (born 1928), American district court judge
  • Joyce Karlin, federal prosecutor, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, and two-term mayor of Manhattan Beach, California
  • Joyce L. Kennard (born 1941), associate justice on the California Supreme Court
  • Joyce Mojonnier, California Assemblywoman from 1983 to 1991
  • Joyce Mujuru (born 1956), Zimbabwean politician, co-vice-president of the Zanu-PF party
  • Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin (born 1944), British Labour Party politician
  • Joyce Elaine Roop (1952–1995), attorney and environmental activist
  • Joyce Savoline, Canadian politician
  • Joyce Steele (born 1910), Australian politician and the first woman elected to the Parliament of South Australia
  • Joyce Trimmer (born 1927), Canadian politician
  • Joyce Watson, Welsh Labour Party politician and Member of the National Assembly for Wales

Sports

Other

  • Joyce Ohajah, British journalist and news anchor
  • Joyce Meyer (born 1943), Christian Evangelical author and speaker
  • Joyce Chiang (1970–1999), Taiwanese-American murdered in Washington, DC

As a last name

Joyce was the surname of one of the Tribes of Galway.

Business

Film, television, and theatre

Literature and print

Music

Politics

Religion

Sports

Other

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ^ David Hugh Farmer. Oxford Dictionary of the Saints. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1978, 1979, 1980. Pp. 225–226.
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