Coyote
Coyote was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,526 among boys’ names; 153 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coyote by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coyote?
#6,526 among boys’ names, 2025
Coyote entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,526 in 2025.
20 babies in 2022, the peak
Coyote peaked in 2022, when 20 babies were given it (15 boys, #5,924 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,526 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,161 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,104 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,924 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,981 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,884 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,483 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,412 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,018 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,264 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #12,860 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,129 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,800 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,967 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coyote a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 153 Americans recorded as Coyote, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Coyote: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coyote, and how old are they?
An estimated 152 Americans named Coyote and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 161 people named Coyote (33 women and girls, 128 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 316 babies since 1880, Coyote is the second most given (48% 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 Coyote
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Coyote and names like it
- Compare Coyote and CoteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCoyote peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coyote since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Coyote.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coyote alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.