girls:
6.6k births since 1880
#2020 (65th percentile)
boys:
323 births since 1894
#4263 (7th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1880
#3237 (58th percentile)
The name Floy is the #3,237 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,935 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 58.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,020 (64.7% percentile) for all time with 6,612 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,263 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 323 births since 1894.
Floy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1894 for boys). Birth data for Floy is available in 89 out of the 92 years between 1880 and 1971 (89 years for girls and 36 years for boys). 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 Floy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Floy reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 33.8% percentile (ranked #391) with 187 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 391 births per million (ranked 23.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
For boys, Floy reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #523) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 64 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Floy".
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