Joy (given name)

Joy is a common female given name meaning Joy, Happiness, Joyful. A common variant of the name is the Latin female given name Joyce (name).

People with the given name Joy

• Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
• Joy Banerjee (1963-), Bengali cinema actor
  • Joy Mukharjee , Bengali cinema actor
• Joy Behar (1942–), American comedian and actress
• Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
• Joy Browne (1944–), American radio psychologist
• Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
• Joy Destiny Tobing, (1980–), Indonesian gospel singer
• Joy Enriquez (1978–), American singer and actress
• Joy Fawcett (1968–), American soccer player
• Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
• Joy Garnett, (1965-) Canadian-American artist
• Joy Giovanni (1978–), American actress, model, professional wrestler, and former WWE Diva
• Joy Grieveson (1941–), British track and field athlete
• Joy Harjo (1951–), American poet
• Joy Kogawa (1935–), Canadian poet and novelist
• Joy Lauren (1989–), American actress
• Joy Mangano (1956–), American inventor, businesswoman, and entrepreneur
• Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
• Joy Mukherjee, (1939-2012) Indian film actor and director
• Joy Ogwu (1946–), Nigerian diplomat
• Joy Padgett (1947–), Ohio state Senator
• Joy Quigley (1948–), New Zealand politician
• Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
• Joy Smith (1947–), Canadian politician
• Joy Williams (singer) (1982–), American pop singer
• Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
• Joy Williams (American writer) (1944–), American author

Fictional characters with the given name Joy

• Joy Turner, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
• Nurse Joy, several characters in the Pokémon series
• The Bugaloos, One of the band member's was named Joy
• Joy "Ma" Newsome, main character in the novel Room and it's film adaptation.
• Joy, one of the main characters of the Christian serie Superbook.
• Joy, main character from Inside Out

See also

• Gioia (disambiguation), the Italian version of the name
• Joie, the French version of the name