Joy (given name)

Joy is a common unisex given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the female given name Joyce (name).

People with the given name Joy

 * Joy (singer) (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet (group)
 * Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
 * Joy Alukkas (born 1956), Indian businessman from Kerala
 * Joy Ballard (born 1966), British Headteacher on Educating Cardiff
 * Joy Banerjee (born 1963), Bengali cinema actor
 * Joy Behar (born 1942), American comedian and actress
 * Joy Bokiri (born 1998), Nigerian women's footballer
 * Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
 * Joy Browne (1944–2016), American radio psychologist
 * Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
 * Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
 * Joy Cherian (born 1944), Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 * Joy Crookes (born 1998), British singer-songwriter
 * Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
 * Joy Destiny Tobing (born 1980), Indonesian gospel singer
 * Joy Enriquez (born 1978), American singer and actress
 * Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
 * Joy Fleming (1944–2017), German singer
 * Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
 * Joy Garnett (born 1965) Canadian-American artist
 * Joy Giovanni (born 1978), American actress, model, wrestler, and WWE Diva
 * Joy Grieveson (born 1941), British track and field athlete
 * Joy Paul Guilford (1897-1987), American psychologist
 * Joy Harjo (born 1951), American poet
 * Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
 * Joy Kogawa (born 1935), Canadian poet and novelist
 * Joy Lauren (born 1989), American actress
 * Joy Lofthouse (1923–2017), British WW2 pilot
 * Joy MacPhail (born 1952), Canadian politician
 * Joy Mangano (born 1956), American inventor, and businesswoman
 * Joy Marshall (1867–1903), New Zealand clergyman, teacher, tennis player, cricketer, and rugby footballer
 * Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian mathematician
 * Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
 * Joy Mukherjee (1939–2012), Indian film actor and director
 * Joy Ogwu (born 1946), Nigerian diplomat
 * Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
 * Joy Padgett (born 1947), American politician
 * Joy Powell (born 1962), American activist
 * Joy Quigley (born 1948), New Zealand politician
 * Joy Reid (born 1968), American cable television host with the full name Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid
 * Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
 * Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
 * Joy Sengupta (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
 * Joy A. Thomas (1963-2020), American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
 * Joy Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
 * Joy Williams (singer) (born 1982), American pop singer
 * Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
 * Joy Williams (American writer) (born 1944), American author
 * Joy Wolfram (born 1989), Finnish nanoscientist
 * Samantha Joy Mostyn, Sam Mostyn, Australian businesswoman and Governor-General.

Fictional characters

 * Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.
 * Nurse Joy, a nurse from the Pokémon TV series.
 * Joy Wang, the daughter in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022 film). Played by Stephanie Hsu.