Coy — #1506 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Coy

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,222 babies named Coy between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Coy currently holds the #1506 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 264 babies received it in a single year. Coy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 866 additional births since 1895.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Coy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,263 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Coy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Coy in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Coy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,222 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.