Joy or Iris?

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Final two names. It’ll either be:

Iris Joy, or
Joy Iris

What do you think?

@FeverBeam i said it has become very popular for rainbow babies, I did not say it is used especially for rainbow babies.

It’s a factor that may impact someone’s use of the name so it’s worth mentioning,

Joy as first name

Iris Joy.
Joyce?

Iris Joy. I really love Joy as a middle name.

hi! seen some replies on here saying their old lady names and (as an Iris) i would just like to say that i adore my name and honestly always have, i know this is an old post but if youre still waiting for baby's arrival i thought id just say that. also congratulations!!

Iris Joy.

Iris is beautiful. Joy is a perfect middle name. It's a really beautiful name.

I agree with the avoiding of Joy as a first name. There are too many unkind jokes, there will always be an idiot in the pub etc. It's the perfect middle name though.

Those stats are really out of date now as the ONS results haven’t been published. I’m expecting it to have increased loads in popularity when the latest figures are out as there’s 1 or 2 in every baby group/kids playground I’m in these days!

Love Iris

@Compsearch , they'll be out of date for babies but not children over 3.

@DuchessOfSausage I thought OP was considering naming a baby though…??

@Compsearch there’s 1 or 2 in every baby group/kids playground I’m in these days!
Some of the children you mentioned will probably be at least 3 and the data will have been available when they were named.

Baby names: where you live could shape what you call your baby - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
shows some hotspots for Iris. It didn't have 3 in my area in 2021. Even in the hotspots it seems to only be about 1 in every 100 births.

@DuchessOfSausage Im specifically talking about kids 3 and under, which is my whole point - the available data is out of date as doesn’t capture all the many little Iris’s I see out and about. My 3yo niece is Iris so I notice it.

OP might not realise this point about the data so I thought it was worth pointing out, especially as it’s a factor that I took into account when naming my kids - I wouldn’t choose a name that had a sudden rise in popularity - and I know that Iris has, in my area at least.

But as you said, you notice it more because you have one in the family.
Your niece would have been included in the data if she was born in England or Wales in 2021.

Both are lovely names but I think Iris Joy flows better than Joy Iris.

Iris is beautiful, one of my favourites

@DuchessOfSausage I didn’t say my niece wasn’t included, I said the data is out of date, which it is. The data for 2022 and 2023 haven’t been published yet but I expect based on trends that I have observed of babies born in those years that Iris will have risen in popularity as compared with its 2021 ranking.

That expectation is based on the many babies called Iris I have seen in the baby groups I have run and attended over the past 3 years, many more than in my DC1’s age group (year 1).

Do you have a baby Iris and are desperate for it to not be popular or something?! Not sure what your issue is…

Iris Joy - love it. I've never known an Iris.

Iris Joy sounds lovely. I’ve only ever know one Joy, a girl at school, and she goes by the name Jo now. She found her name embarrassing and said it didn’t suit her (which was true; she was generally miserable).

The Joy I knew was a nasty joyless woman so I'm biased against it!

Iris is ok.

I always hear 'I arrest you' or think it will be 'Irish Stew'

Joy Iris

Iris Joy is beautiful.

Much prefer Iris Joy am not massively fussed on Joy as a first name. But Iris is lovely!

Both are lovely but I this Iris Joy flows better.