Hoy
Hoy was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 825 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hoy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hoy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,053, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1923, the peak
Hoy peaked in 1923, when 36 boys were given it, #1,203 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,053 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,610 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,343 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,740 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,483 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,736 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,888 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,213 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,135 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,808 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #4,319 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,290 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,132 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,701 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,316 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,177 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,320 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,249 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,450 | 5.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,429 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,915 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,693 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,161 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,572 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,984 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,477 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,921 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,870 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,197 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,260 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,565 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,916 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,932 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,952 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,755 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,617 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,180 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,427 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,619 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,042 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,125 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,846 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,670 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,838 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,130 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,709 | 18.8 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,367 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,203 | 32.8 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,850 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,796 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,526 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,550 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,564 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,559 | 23.8 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,891 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,432 | 27.1 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,577 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,870 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,810 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,632 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 12 | #954 | 61.8 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,322 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,320 | 37.8 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,031 | 49.4 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,007 | 44.0 |
| 1880 | 8 | #710 | 72.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hoy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hoy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hoy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hoy, and how old are they?
An estimated 186 Americans named Hoy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 411 people named Hoy (56 women and girls, 355 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Hoy 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,008 babies since 1880, Hoy is the most given (82% 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 Hoy
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 Hoy and names like it
- Compare Hoy and HoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHoy peaked in 1923.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hoy since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Hoy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hoy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.