girls:
866 births since 1895
#4850 (15th percentile)
boys:
17.1k births since 1880
#880 (81st percentile)
overall:
18k births since 1880
#1921 (75th percentile)
The name Coy is the #1,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,969 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #880 (80.8% percentile) for all time with 17,103 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,850 (15.1% percentile) for all time with 866 births since 1895.
Coy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1895 for girls). Birth data for Coy is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 85 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Coy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Coy reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 41.6% percentile (ranked #313) with 253 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 331 births per million (ranked 22.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Coy ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 17.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Coy reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #572) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Coy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Coy is pronounced as koy, which has 1 syllables.
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