Loy
Loy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192293 births
- Best rank
- #479in 1903
- Since 1881
- 4,983people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,111 boys have been named Loy in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 93 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 93 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Loy is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (872), most of them born around 1940.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Loy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 38 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 116 | |
| 1910s | 543 | |
| 1920s | 825 | |
| 1930s | 771 | |
| 1940s | 599 | |
| 1950s | 451 | |
| 1960s | 284 | |
| 1970s | 178 | |
| 1980s | 88 | |
| 1990s | 66 | |
| 2000s | 51 | |
| 2010s | 21 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Loy was the 670th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Loy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Loydpeak 1926
- Benniepeak 1929
- Lloydpeak 1918
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Merrillpeak 1926
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Francispeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.