Floy
Floy was last recorded in 1971, when 7 babies were given it; 6,935 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Floy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Floy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Floy is “a diminutive of the female given name Florence.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Floy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,826, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
241 babies in 1918, the peak
Floy peaked in 1918, when 241 babies were given it (225 girls, #442 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 7 | #6,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 10 | #4,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,756 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,897 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,674 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,581 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,444 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 50 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,194 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 59 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 72 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 84 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 76 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 72 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 102 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 97 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 94 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1932 | 80 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 128 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 120 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 128 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 167 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 156 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1926 | 129 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 155 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 159 | #584 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 141 | #621 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 177 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 172 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1920 | 176 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 196 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 225 | #442 | 0.19 |
| 1917 | 207 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 171 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 184 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1914 | 150 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 113 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 118 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1911 | 89 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1910 | 104 | #388 | 0.26 |
| 1909 | 77 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 85 | #393 | 0.25 |
| 1907 | 98 | #358 | 0.31 |
| 1906 | 80 | #383 | 0.27 |
| 1905 | 74 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1904 | 82 | #361 | 0.30 |
| 1903 | 64 | #398 | 0.24 |
| 1902 | 56 | #413 | 0.21 |
| 1901 | 73 | #357 | 0.30 |
| 1900 | 85 | #368 | 0.28 |
| 1899 | 82 | #330 | 0.35 |
| 1898 | 80 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1897 | 56 | #387 | 0.24 |
| 1896 | 70 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1895 | 76 | #328 | 0.33 |
| 1894 | 65 | #343 | 0.29 |
| 1893 | 74 | #314 | 0.35 |
| 1892 | 72 | #315 | 0.34 |
| 1891 | 56 | #339 | 0.30 |
| 1890 | 68 | #306 | 0.36 |
| 1889 | 74 | #277 | 0.41 |
| 1888 | 53 | #332 | 0.30 |
| 1887 | 54 | #291 | 0.37 |
| 1886 | 41 | #333 | 0.28 |
| 1885 | 43 | #307 | 0.32 |
| 1884 | 38 | #321 | 0.29 |
| 1883 | 26 | #360 | 0.23 |
| 1882 | 26 | #350 | 0.24 |
| 1881 | 17 | #408 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 23 | #334 | 0.25 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Floy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,935 Americans recorded as Floy, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Floy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Floy, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Floy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (10% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 75 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,200 people named Floy (1,063 women and girls, 137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Floy born?
The states with the most babies named Floy are Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arkansas and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 692 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 664 | not ranked | 7.0× |
| Oklahoma | 324 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 280 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 199 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 181 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 172 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 167 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 79 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Floy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Floy is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Floy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,768 babies since 1880, Floy is the most given (71% 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 Floy
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 Floy and names like it
- Compare Floy and FloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFloy peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Floy since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Floy.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Floy alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with FMost given first.