Joy

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What do you think of first name Joy?

Really drawn to the name and its simplicity.

Can't think of anything less joyful than the name Joy, it's quite dull.

Joyce is nice, shortened to Joy.

Lovely.

I think of a lovely lady that I used to work with and she would always have homemade jam and biscuits at her desk. Reading the name I instantly saw her- I was so jealous of those biscuits!

I like Jay for boys and Joy for girls.

I love Joy. Not keen on Joyce.

My lovely mother was a Joy and I adore the name. She hated it though! 😆

I love it. Not keen on Joyce at all.

Sorry I don't like it. Every Joy I've ever met was Joyless.

It’s my name. Growing up, I hated it. Now I quite like it. But hate it when people call be Joyce

My grandmother is called Joy and she’s a wonderful kind woman so it has good connotations for me. Joyce seems more old fashioned somehow.

It's lovely!
So underused.
It sparks happiness. JOY!
Ohhh I really do love it.
You can't spell or pronounce it wrong.

Haha you’d be surprised 😂😂😂

@Anaesthetist83

Haha you’d be surprised 😂😂😂

Ah do you get Joey? Joie, like the French ? People can be so stupid. Assuming English is their first language of course!

Jo, Joyce, Joey, Jay

@Anaesthetist83

Jo, Joyce, Joey, Jay

My maiden name was bonkers. It was massacred at my graduation . But mispronouncing Joy, is pretty bad! It's an actual word, people!

Yup, Jo all the time, or Joyce!

And it's too much to live up to, tbh. People expect constant sunniness.

Ah yes, that would be the one downside to 'virtue' names.

Verity and Felicity would be hard to live up to. But the plus side to being a Verity who lied is they'd never expect it mwahahahahahaha!

It's also a very Christian name, so people expect certain behaviours from you too.

Somewaterytart I don't think many people actually associate Felicity with its Latin meaning, not sure why. It's still seen as a name first, meaning second, unlike Joy, Chastity etc which are words first, names second.

Grace seems to have have escaped this, perhaps because it's so ubiquitous?

The Joy I know is (was) very, very religious. Surprisingly so for our age group tbh. But a lovely person and extremely intelligent.

I also know a few families who are very Christian who used Grace, because of God's grace / amazing grace and all that.

It reminds me of King Curtis' nemesis Joy.

Joy is nice Joyce is bloody awful.

I have never really associated it with Christianity TBH. Come to think of it I know a few Faiths and I never make that association with them, either.
I knew a cheerful Felicity (lovely name), and I know a Verity who is probably too little to tell if she's compulsively truthful yet.

My middle name. Always hated it. The only relief being it wasn't my first name. Please don't inflict this on your child.

Love it, simple and classic.
It will be nice for a baby named Joy after the year we have all had!
I considered the name Jane, again simple and classic. They both sound beautiful and fair.