Joy or Julia

[Sexnotgender]

Which would you pick?

[Edenember]

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

[JemimaJoy]

Joy 😍😍😍

[NaToth]

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

[DramaAlpaca]

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

[belle002]

Julia is lovely and elegant. I love Juliet too.

[Lnix]

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. 🙈😅

[HappyGoPlucky]

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.

[Fabuleuse]

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

[salcombebabe]

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

[GoToSleepBabyPlease]

Julia Joy?

JJ?

[OwlBasket]

Juliana?

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

[OtherwiseKnownAsSheilaTh3Great]

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.

[Saltyslug]

Joy is great. Also faith and hope as names

[AnnaSW1]

Julia.

[VanillaAndOrange]

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.

[Appletreehat]

Julia is a lovely name.

[Wigeon]

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

[Amdone123]

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

[JoyMyNameIsJoy]

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.

[Biscuitsneeded]

Julia is gorgeous.

[Biscuitsneeded]

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.)