girls:
2.7k births since 1896
#3352 (41st percentile)
boys:
215.2k births since 1880
#173 (96th percentile)
overall:
217.8k births since 1880
#362 (95th percentile)
The name Troy is the #362 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 217,838 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #173 (96.2% percentile) for all time with 215,166 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,352 (41.3% percentile) for all time with 2,672 births since 1896.
Troy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls).
The name Troy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Troy reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 94.0% percentile (ranked #41) with 4,435 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 4,493 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Troy ranks #417 for boys (54.3% percentile) with 362 births per million, which is 8.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Troy reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 14.5% percentile (ranked #674) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 57 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Troy ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 7.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Troy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Troy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Troy is pronounced as troy, which has 1 syllables.
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