Joy or Julia

[Sexnotgender]

Which would you pick?

Joy, but if the alternative was Juliet rather than Julia I would’ve picked that.

Joy 😍😍😍

Another vote for Julia, but I'm biased. Ours is also known as Jay.

Julia. It's a beautiful, strong, elegant name with a distinguished history.

Julia is lovely and elegant. I love Juliet too.

Absolutely love Julia. Timeless and beautiful. I like the idea of Joy but when I say it too many times it sounds like 'Joey' as in Joey from Friends. 🙈😅

Julia! It's my name! It wasn't very common growing up and is incredibly rare now. There are a surprising number of songs about Julia, considering there aren't that many of us about. I love The Beatles' Julia.
Have to say Joy is a lovely name too though.

Julia. It was our girl name (had two boys).

Julia! I’m a Julia too and love my name and that it’s so uncommon

Julia Joy?

JJ?

Juliana?

I love Joy but would only use it as a nn.

I'm not sure if the name Julia is 'incredibly rare?' It's not common these days among young children because it's so dated in my opinion. It's boring and 70s and a name that you'd expect on a woman in her 40s.

Bet you can't guess what my name is eh? I am known as Jules by everyone

I don't like Joy either. Not due a revival.

Joy is great. Also faith and hope as names

Julia.

I like Joy but I love Julia. I don't think it's dated, think it's one of those names but has never been either massively popular or massively unpopular. It's a bit like Anna - it would fit in in any generation, even if it was slightly unusual.

Julia is a lovely name.

Definitely Julia. I’d hate to be lumbered with being called Joy - every time you weren’t ecstaticly happy, people would make a joke.

I really like Julia. Also like the Italian spelling Giulia, pronounced the same way.

NOT Joy!
As people say, it's horrible to have to live up to, and people expect exuberance at all times...

It's very popular as a middle name though.

Julia is gorgeous.

And also Julia is a name that is never achingly cool but never goes out of fashion either - it's an elegant, grown-up name that will stand out among all the Millies and Lilies and Freyas and Islas. (All nice names, of course, but very now - Julia won't date.)