Joyce’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Joyce
Joyce's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Joyce's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Joyce: meaning and origin
Joyce began as a boys’ name. It comes from the medieval Josse, from Iudocus, a Latinized form of the Breton name Judoc, meaning “lord”. Saint Judoc was a 7th-century Breton, and Breton settlers brought the name to England after the Norman Conquest. Behind the Name says it became rare after the 14th century and was later revived as a girls’ name, perhaps because it sounds like the Middle English joise, “to rejoice”.
Nicknames and variants
Joyce is short already, so nicknames are rare. Its old relatives are more interesting: Joisse is an old English form, Josse is the French form, and Jocosa was a medieval English version. In Brazil the name is often spelled Joice.
Famous people named Joyce
Joyce Carol Oates has published more than 50 novels since her first book in 1963 and won the National Book Award for them (1969). Joyce Banda was Malawi’s first female president, serving from 2012 to 2014. And Joyce Grenfell was a much-loved English entertainer whose nursery-school monologues gave us the line “George, don’t do that”.
Is Joyce a popular name?
Joyce was a Depression-era hit. In US Social Security data it was 61st in the 1920s, jumped to 12th in the 1930s and was still 19th in the 1940s, when more than 151,000 American girls were named Joyce. It was 29th in the 1950s and 83rd in the 1960s, then left the top 200, so most Joyces today are in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
Joyce trivia
Saint Judoc was the son of a king of Brittany who gave up his wealth to become a priest and live alone near the mouth of the River Canche. The name also became a surname, which is how the Irish writer James Joyce got his. Every June 16, his fans celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which his novel Ulysses is set.
Gift ideas that suit a Joyce
- For Bloomsday. A notebook for a Joyce on James Joyce’s big day, June 16.
- For a writer. Joyce Carol Oates has written dozens of novels. A notebook is where the next one starts.
- For a gratitude journal. Her name may echo the old word for “rejoice”. Three good things a day.
- For an 80th or 90th birthday. Joyce peaked in the 1930s and 40s, so milestones abound.
How Joyce can use it
Any Joyce, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Joyce can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Joyce’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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