Joyce
How many real pets are named Joyce, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Joyce as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 12 pets are named Joyce: 11 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 83% are female and 17% male. It ranks #4,395 among dog names and #6,058 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Joyce
Dogs
- Boxer: 2
- Chihuahua: 1
- Doberman Pinscher: 1
- Maltese: 1
- Poodle: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Joyce
- Austin shelter: 5shelter
- New York City: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Joyce as a human name
This is the meaning of Joyce as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from the Celtic languages, associated by folk etymology with joy and rejoice. Root meaning: “lord”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Joyce
Dog names about as popular as Joyce
Joyce FAQ
How many pets are named Joyce?
In the public pet records we track, 12 pets are named Joyce: 11 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 83% are female and 17% male. It ranks #4,395 among dog names and #6,058 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Joyce?
Among dogs named Joyce in these records, the most common breed is Boxer.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.