girls:
872 births since 1895
#4844 (15th percentile)
boys:
4.1k births since 1881
#1904 (58th percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1881
#3867 (50th percentile)
The name Loy is the #3,867 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,983 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 50.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,904 (58.5% percentile) for all time with 4,111 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,844 (15.2% percentile) for all time with 872 births since 1895.
Loy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1895 for girls). Birth data for Loy is available in 123 out of the 141 years between 1881 and 2021 (122 years for boys and 67 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 Loy has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Loy were boys.
For boys, Loy reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #421) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 155 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Loy reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #564) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loy".
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