Baby names
The name Joyce is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "merry, joyous". Once a boy name, this name took off for girls during the mid-twentieth century, when it spent 1930 to 1947 in the Top 20. Now, it's one of the girls' names starting with Jleast likely to make a comeback any time soon. Joyce has a long history as a surname, perhaps most prominently connected to James Joyce, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
