girls:
42 births since 1914
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
420 births since 1915
#4166 (9th percentile)
overall:
462 births since 1914
#7277 (6th percentile)
The name Coye is the #7,277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 462 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,166 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 420 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1914.
Coye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Coye is available in 60 out of the 105 years between 1914 and 2018 (58 years for boys and 7 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 Coye has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.9% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1917, the name was more popular for girls (51.4% girls from 1914 to 1916), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.4% boys from 1917 to 2018).
For boys, Coye reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #514) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Coye reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #570) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coye".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Coye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Coye is pronounced as koy, which has 1 syllables.
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