Cloy
Cloy was last recorded in 1944, when 6 babies were given it; 131 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cloy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cloy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cloy is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cloy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,166, in 1944; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1932, the peak
Cloy peaked in 1932, when 13 boys were given it, #2,119 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 6 | #3,166 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,632 | 3.5 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,579 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,618 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,008 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,738 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,119 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,146 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,814 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,292 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 5 | #4,260 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,180 | 7.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,911 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,818 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,810 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,284 | 7.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,936 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,705 | 10.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cloy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 131 Americans recorded as Cloy, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cloy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cloy, and how old are they?
An estimated 10 Americans named Cloy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 164 people named Cloy (74 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Cloy rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,508 babies since 1880, Cloy is the second most given (5.2% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cloy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Mervyn | 1,586 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cloy and names like it
- Compare Cloy and ColeyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sCloy peaked in 1932.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Cloy.
- Names starting with CMost given first.