About the name Joie
Joie belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Joie first appears in Social Security records in 1915. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1667 in 1976, and in 2024 57 babies received the name — 2,907 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.