Foy — boys' name

What the Data Says About Foy

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,112 babies named Foy between 1889 and 2005, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Foy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Foy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 421 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Foy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 522 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Foy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 363 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Foy in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Foy 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 2,112 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.