Koty
Koty was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 484 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koty?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,345, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1991, the peak
Koty peaked in 1991, when 50 babies were given it (44 boys, #1,809 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #13,345 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,205 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,515 | 3.5 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,513 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,277 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,108 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,813 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,752 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,512 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,786 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 23 | #3,220 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,342 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,234 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,533 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,372 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,963 | 20.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,809 | 21.8 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,887 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,739 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,220 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,780 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,006 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,193 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,051 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,339 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 484 Americans recorded as Koty, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Koty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koty, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Koty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 30 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 494 people named Koty (73 women and girls, 421 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Koty?
Koty is a less common spelling of Coty: SSA has recorded 484 Koty and 6,303 Coty since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,296 babies since 1880, Koty is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 116 babies recorded by SSA was a Koty (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Koty
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 Koty and names like it
- Compare Koty and CotyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKoty peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Koty since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Koty.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Koty alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.