Names That Mean Joy

Names meaning joy, happiness, delight or blessing. The one theme where the modern English word and the ancient root usually agree, which is rarer than it sounds.

Every name here has a researched page whose stated meaning carries this sense.

Rankings for

30 names, most popular first in the United States

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Asher Asher is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "happy" or "blessed."
Boy Hebrew #28 in US
Grace Grace is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "favor" or "blessing," from gratia.
Girl Latin #38 in US
Bennett Bennett is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "blessed," the medieval English form of Benedict, from benedictus.
Boy Latin #40 in US
Abigail Abigail is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father's joy," from Avigayil.
Girl Hebrew #41 in US
Alaia Alaia is a girl's name of Basque origin meaning "joyful" or "happy," from the Basque alai.
Girl Basque #117 in US
Felix Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lucky" or "fortunate."
Boy Latin #175 in US
Tate Tate is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning "cheerful."
Boy Norse #194 in US
Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
Unisex English #389 in US
Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.
Boy English #399 in US
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
Girl English #419 in US
Felicity Felicity is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "happiness" or "good fortune."
Girl Latin #473 in US
Winnie Winnie is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "blessed reconciliation."
Girl Welsh #475 in US
Beatrice Beatrice is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness."
Girl Latin #508 in US
Hana Hana is a girl's name with three unrelated origins: the Japanese for "flower," the Arabic for "happiness," and a Slavic and Czech form of Hannah, meaning "grace."
Girl Disputed #657 in US
Abby Abby means my father is joy, and France ranks it 322nd — ahead of Scotland at 359th, Ireland at 453rd and the United States at 731st, which is not where an English diminutive of a Hebrew name should lead.
Girl English #731 in US
Winifred Winifred is two names that English collapsed into one — the Welsh Gwenfrewi and the Anglo-Saxon Winfrid, unrelated in every element, and birth records mark the result reviving with England setting its peak this year.
Girl Welsh #922 in US
Noam Noam is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "pleasantness" or "delight."
Boy Hebrew #1,274 in US
Farrah Farrah is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "joy," and its recorded peak is 1977 — the year after one poster sold twelve million copies.
Girl Arabic #1,331 in US
Abbie Abbie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," a short form of Abigail, whose bearer talks David out of a massacre.
Girl Hebrew #1,653 in US
Leticia Leticia means joy, and Napoleon's mother carried it — Letizia Ramolino outlived her son and was styled Madame Mère de l'Empereur, a title created for her alone.
Girl Spanish #1,703 in US
Carol Carol is a girl's name with two independent sources: a short form of Caroline, and the word for a joyful song.
Girl English #2,239 in US
Asees Asees is a mostly girls' name of Sanskrit origin meaning "blessing".
Girl Indian #2,391 in US
Edna Edna is a girl's name from a Hebrew word meaning delight, and it shares its root with Eden.
Girl Hebrew #2,469 in US
Olga Olga is a Norse name in Russian dress — Helga traveled east with the Varangians and became Olga, so the patron saint of Kyiv and Moscow carries a Scandinavian word meaning holy.
Girl Russian #3,174 in US
Aymen Aymen is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "right-handed" or "blessed," and in Arabic those two senses are one idea rather than two.
Boy Arabic #4,023 in US
Gaelle Gaelle is Breton, not Irish, and the resemblance to Gael is misleading — it shortens Gwenaël, which joins the Breton words for blessed and generous, and has no connection to the Gaelic peoples.
Girl French #5,289 in US
Felicia Felicia means lucky, and the Latin felix meant fertile before it meant fortunate — the word originally described soil and livestock that produced well, and good fortune was a later extension of it.
Girl Latin #5,688 in US
Benoît Benoît means blessed, and it is the French form of Benedict — the circumflex marks a lost s, so the older spelling was Benoist and the Latin behind it was benedictus, well-spoken-of.
Boy French #6,783 in US
Laetitia Laetitia means joy, and it is the Latin original standing behind the far more common Letitia and Lettice.
Girl French 144,722 births
Gayle Gayle carries 67,694 lifetime births and now charts in no market — one of the largest names on this site to have fallen entirely out of current use.
Girl English 67,716 births

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