Joyce (name)

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Joyce
Pronunciation/ˈdʒɔɪs/ JOYSS
GenderMale Female
Origin
Word/nameBreton
Meaning"Lord"

The name Joyce is a given name used for females and rarely used for males. As a family name in the Middle Ages, 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 was later revived as a female given name, which derived from the Middle English joise meaning "rejoice".[1][better source needed]

The name originated with Saint Joyce (Judoc) (600–668), a Breton prince and hermit and the son of Judicael, king of Brittany.[2]

As a first name[]

Art[]

  • Joyce Ballantyne (1918–2006), American painter of pin-ups
  • Joyce Dennys (1893–1991), English cartoonist, illustrator and painter
  • Joyce Wieland (1931–1998), Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist

Business[]

  • Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef and restaurateur
  • Joyce Hall (1891–1982), American businessman and founder of Hallmark Cards
  • Joyce Kiage, businesswoman from Papua New Guinea
  • Joyce Nicholson (1919-2011), Australian author and businesswoman

Film, television, and theater[]

Literature and print[]

Music[]

  • Joyce Auguste, Saint Lucian musician and leader of The Hewanorra Voices
  • Joyce Blackham (1934–2018), British opera singer
  • Joyce Cooling, American smooth jazz guitarist
  • Joyce DiDonato (born 1969), American opera singer
  • Joyce Hatto (1928–2006), faux British pianist
  • Joyce Kennedy, American singer with the funk rock band Mother's Finest
  • Joyce Moreno (musician) (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter, formerly known as Joyce
  • Joyce Paul (1937–2016), American country music singer
  • Joyce Sims (born 1959), American singer-songwriter and pianist
  • Joyce Wright (born 1922), British opera singer and actress
  • Joyce Yang (born 1986), Korean pianist
  • Joyce Zhao Hong Qiao (born 1979), Taiwanese actress and member of music group 7 Flowers

Politics[]

  • Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, Conservative member of the House of Lords
  • Joyce Banda (born 1951), Malawian Member of Parliament
  • Joyce Baird (1929 – 2015), British trade unionist
  • Joyce Beatty (born 1950), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
  • Joyce Butler (1910–1992), British Labour Co-operative politician
  • Joyce Cusack (born 1942), member of the Florida House of Representatives
  • Joyce Fairbairn (born 1939), Canadian Senator and first woman Leader of the Government in the Senate
  • Joyce Gemayel, wife of former President of Lebanon Amin Gemayel and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel
  • Joyce Hens Green (born 1928), American district court judge
  • Joyce Karlin, federal prosecutor, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, and two-term mayor of Manhattan Beach, California
  • Joyce L. Kennard (born 1941), associate justice of the California Supreme Court
  • Joyce Mojonnier, California Assemblywoman from 1983 to 1991
  • Joyce Mujuru (born 1956), Zimbabwean politician, co-vice-president of the Zanu-PF party
  • Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin (born 1944), British Labour Party politician
  • Joyce Elaine Roop (1952–1995), attorney and environmental activist
  • Joyce Savoline, Canadian politician
  • Joyce Steele (born 1910), Australian politician and the first woman elected to the Parliament of South Australia
  • Joyce Trimmer (born 1927), Canadian politician
  • Joyce Watson, Welsh Labour Party politician and Member of the National Assembly for Wales

Sports[]

Other[]

As a last name[]

Business[]

  • Alan Joyce (born 1966), Irish-Australian Qantas CEO
  • David Joyce (1825–1904), American lumber baron and industrialist
  • Morton Dean Joyce (1900–1989), of New York City
  • Patrick H. Joyce (1879–1946), American railroad executive
  • Ron Joyce (1930-2019), Canadian billionaire and co-founder of Tim Horton's donut chain

Film, television, and theatre[]

Literature and print[]

Music[]

Politics[]

Religion[]

  • Gilbert Cunningham Joyce (1866–1942), educator and Bishop of Monmouth
  • Isaac Wilson Joyce (1836–1905), American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Jeremiah Joyce (1763–1816), Unitarian minister and writer

Sports[]

Other[]

Fictional characters[]

  • Joyce Barry, character in The Prisoner
  • Joyce Barnaby, character in Midsomer Murders (TV Series 1997– )
  • Joyce Benson, character in the 1970s comedy Angie
  • Joyce Byers, character in Stranger Things
  • Joyce Davenport, character in Hill Street Blues
  • Joyce Kinney, character in Family Guy
  • Joyce Summers, character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Gilda Joyce, character in the Gilda Joyce mystery novels

See also[]

  • Joyce Country, a region of counties Galway in Ireland in which the Joyce family name is common.
  • All pages with titles beginning with Joyce

References[]

  1. ^ Behindthename.com - Joyce
  2. ^ David Hugh Farmer. Oxford Dictionary of the Saints. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1978, 1979, 1980. Pp. 225–226.
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