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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Joy m for the male version.
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
English name from the vocabulary word (which derived via Old French joie from Latin gaudia) [1] [2] [3]
Joy | ♀ |
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Joy | ♂ |
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See also Joyce
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Joy |
Genitive: | Joys |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Joy |
Genitive: | Joyn |
Partitive: | Joyta |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Joy |
Genitive: | Joys |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Joy |
Genitive: | Joys |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[4] |
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564 | 1412 | 497 | 1287 | 67 | 125 |
Denmark[5] |
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500 | n.a. |
491 | n.a. |
9 | n.a. |
Finland[6] |
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n.a. |
470 | n.a. |
444 | n.a. |
26 |
Iceland[7] |
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8 | 37 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
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0 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
165 | n.a. |
157 | n.a. |
8 | n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |