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Joyce (name)

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Joyce is an Irish and French given name and surname. It is derived from the Old French masculine name Josse, which derived from the Latin name Iudocus, the Latinized form of the Breton name Judoc meaning "lord". The name became rare after the 14th century, but was later revived as a female given name, which derived from the Middle English joise meaning "rejoice".[1] [better source needed]

The name originated with Saint Joyce (Judoc) (600–668), a Breton prince and hermit and the son of Judicael, king of Brittany.[2]

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  • Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (born 1947), Conservative member of the House of Lords
  • Joyce Banda (born 1951), Malawian Member of Parliament
  • Joyce Baird (1929–2015), British trade unionist
  • Joyce Beatty (born 1950), American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives
  • Joyce Butler (1910–1992), British Labour Co-operative politician
  • Joyce Cusack (born 1942), American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives
  • Joyce Fairbairn (1939–2022), Canadian Senator and first woman Leader of the Government in the Senate
  • Joyce Gemayel, wife of former President of Lebanon Amin Gemayel and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel
  • Joyce Henry, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
  • Joyce Hens Green (born 1928), American district court judge
  • Joyce Karlin Fahey (born 1951), Venezuela-born American prosecutor, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, and two-term mayor of Manhattan Beach, California
  • Joyce L. Kennard (born 1941), American judge, associate justice of the California Supreme Court
  • Joyce Mojonnier (born 1943), American politician, California Assemblywoman from 1983 to 1991
  • Joyce Mujuru (born 1956), Zimbabwean politician, co-vice-president of the Zanu-PF party
  • Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin (born 1944), British Labour Party politician
  • Joyce Elaine Roop (1952–1995), American attorney and environmental activist
  • Joyce Savoline (born 1946), Canadian politician
  • Joyce Steele (1909–1991), Australian politician and the first woman elected to the Parliament of South Australia
  • Joyce Trimmer (1927–2008), Canadian politician
  • Joyce Watson (born 1955), Welsh Labour Party politician and Member of the National Assembly for Wales

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  • Alan Joyce (born 1966), Irish-Australian Qantas CEO
  • David Joyce (1825–1904), American lumber baron and industrialist
  • Morton Dean Joyce (1900–1989), American philatelist
  • Patrick H. Joyce (1879–1946), American railroad executive
  • Ron Joyce (1930–2019), Canadian billionaire and co-founder of Tim Horton's donut chain

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References

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  1. ^ Behindthename.com - Joyce
  2. ^ David Hugh Farmer. Oxford Dictionary of the Saints. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1978, 1979, 1980. Pp. 225–226.