Name: Joyce
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Joyce, of breton origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Joyce are in general originating from France, Ireland, Kenya, Malta, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Joyce is: Experienced in battle, Merry.
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Numerology of the first name Joyce: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 22. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: visionary, successful, leader, innovative, genius.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Successful, Visionary
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Joyce is ranked on the 290th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 2128600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.03% of the population. The name Joyce has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
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]
English: apparently from the Norman male name Josce (Middle English Josse), which in turn is from Jodocus, a Latinized form of a Breton name, Iodoc, meaning ‘lord’, borne by a 7th-century Breton saint. The name was in use among Breton followers of William the Conqueror. However, although this was fairly common as a male given name in the Middle Ages, it had virtually died out by the 14th century. There is some evidence of its use as a female name in the 17th and 18th centuries, perhaps as a variant of Joy. It was strongly revived in the 19th century under the influence of popular fiction. It is borne by characters in Mrs Henry Wood's East Lynne (1861) and Edna Lyall's In the Golden Days (1885). Modern use may well have been influenced also by the common Irish surname derived from the medieval Norman male name. See also Joss.
Cognates: Low German: Jobst. Dutch: Joost, Joos.
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