The Joye surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,186 people carried this name — #20,727 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
815 people named Joye live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 507 people named Joye.
31 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 47 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 488 people named Joye live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Joye.
- Jovanovic 1,179 · U.S. census
- Jove 307 · U.S. census
- Jover 173 · U.S. census
- Jovic 278 · U.S. census
- Jovin 161 · U.S. census
- Joy 12,741 · U.S. census
- Joyer 104 · U.S. census
- Jozefiak 187 · U.S. census
- Jozwiak 2,095 · U.S. census
- Juan 4,811 · U.S. census
- Juanico 154 · U.S. census
- Juarez 68,785 · U.S. census
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