Joy is an English word name meaning simply "joy" or "delight", from the Old French joie and the Latin gaudia; the Puritans adopted it as a virtue name. Pixar's Inside Out (2015) gave the emotion a face, and the name climbed a little afterward. Joy has stayed in the US top 1000 all century, peaked at number 336 in 2017 and ranks number 419 in 2025.