Surname statistics for Joy

There are approximately 6,540 people named Joy in the UK. That makes it the 1,617th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 104 are named Joy.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)65401617N/A104
United Kingdom (1881 census)252017760.00884
Change since 1881+4020+159+0.002+20
Other Countries
United States127412607N/A47
Australia7332213N/A45

Politics

People with the surname Joy are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Joy are:

  1. Conservative (2)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Joy
Michael Joy
Christopher Joy
Andrew Joy
Richard Joy
Peter Joy
Stephen Joy
Robert Joy
Paul Joy
Simon Joy
Steven Joy
John Joy
James Joy
Mark Joy
Nicholas Joy
Kevin Joy
Brian Joy
Marcus Joy
Trevor Joy
Alan Joy

Top female forenames

Christine Joy
Susan Joy
Elizabeth Joy
Helen Joy
Elaine Joy
Ann Joy
Patricia Joy
Caroline Joy
Emma Joy
Julie Joy
Jennifer Joy
Sandra Joy
Lynda Joy
Janet Joy
Sally Joy
Deborah Joy
Pauline Joy
Karen Joy
Sarah Joy
Linda Joy

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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.