Joyner
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Joyner is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner .
- USUnited States1 in 11K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 17K
- CACanada1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 401 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
306K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner .
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #921 | 29,884 | 270K rec. | 1 in 11K | 30K | Joyner | 401 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 13,707 | 13K rec. | — | — | Joyner | 105 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,289 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Joyner | 82 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,158 | 3.2K rec. | — | 1 | Joyner | 63 |
| IT Italy | — | 952 | 1K rec. | — | — | Joyner | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 868 | 860 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 38 |
| SG Singapore | #752 | 845 | 910 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 6 |
| GH Ghana | #360 | 749 | 763 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 9 |
| LR Liberia | #3 | 700 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Joyner | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 688 | 699 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | 582 | 583 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 506 | 526 rec. | — | — | Joyner | 10 |
Roughly 30K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English304K87%
- 10K3%
- Spanish9.3K3%
- German2.8K1%
- French2.7K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 304,216 | 87% |
| 10,236 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 9,289 | 3% |
| German | 2,846 | 1% |
| French | 2,669 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 34 |
| 2022 | 26 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sissieretta Jonesb. 1868USnot in their usual nameAmerican soprano singer
- Marjorie Joynerb. 1896USAmerican businesswoman and hair care entrepreneur
- Joyzelle Joynerb. 1905USAmerican actor-dancer (1905-1980)
- Al Joynerb. 1960USTrack and Field Triple Jumper, Hurdler, Coach Flo-Jo's husband
- Mario Joynerb. 1961USAmerican comedian
- Jackie Joynerb. 1962USAmerican track and field athlete
- Wally Joynerb. 1962USAmerican baseball player
- Lisa Joynerb. 1966USAmerican television personality
- Jo Joynerb. 1977GBEnglish actress
- Owen Joynerb. 2000USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 30K | #1,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,134 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,239 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 138 | #41,133 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 130 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 51 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41 | #41,133 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 41 | #3,771 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 26 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Joyner?
- We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Joyner (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Joyner have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Joyner in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joyner.
- How common is Joyner compared with other names?
- In the United States, Joyner is the 921st most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Joyner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner .
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joyner” — the 921st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.