Joyner
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Joyner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 5th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner .
- LRLiberia≈1 in 1.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 3.8Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8.6Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 445 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
29,884 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner .
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joyner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #925 | 29,884 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Joyner | 445 |
| GH Ghana | #326 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Joyner | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Joyner | 138 |
| LR Liberia | #5 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Joyner | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Joyner | 84 |
| SG Singapore | #773 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Joyner | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Joyner | 11 |
29,884 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, 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 | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joyner mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Gloucs and W Midlands;. see Joiner . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Joyner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Joyner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joyner.
- How common is the name Joyner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,884 people named Joyner in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Joyner compared with other names?
- In the United States, Joyner is the 925th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joynerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joyner” — the 925th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.