The surname Joye
A surname, carried by 1,268 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex J000
Origin
English surname, variant of Joy.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,268 people named Joye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 243,490 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,186.
#20,818
rank among US surnames
1,268
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+6.9%
change since 2000 (was #20,727)
Who is named Joye
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Joye identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Joye has the Soundex code J000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J000.
Questions
- Where does the surname Joye come from?
- English surname, variant of Joy.
- How common is the surname Joye?
- 1,268 people in the United States had the surname Joye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 243,490 Americans. It ranked 20,818th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Joye?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Joye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Joye getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,186 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,268 in 2010, up 6.9%.