Laroy
Laroy was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,317 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laroy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laroy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,268, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1989, the peak
Laroy peaked in 1989, when 26 boys were given it, #2,513 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,268 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,443 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,294 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,219 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,341 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,257 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,602 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,051 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,504 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,227 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #9,704 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,602 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,732 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,012 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,620 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,554 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,109 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,586 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,201 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,199 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,025 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,234 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,745 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,536 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,513 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,031 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,436 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,689 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,023 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,824 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,178 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,478 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,748 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,797 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,132 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,004 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,518 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,022 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,162 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,237 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,365 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,293 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,332 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,809 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,092 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,999 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,418 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,741 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,040 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,365 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,162 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,596 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,194 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,267 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,482 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,867 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,746 | 4.6 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,375 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,163 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,631 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,327 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,438 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,074 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,910 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,386 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,585 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,810 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,493 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,132 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,036 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,709 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,861 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,252 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,370 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,266 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,147 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,847 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,467 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,897 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,456 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,535 | 21.1 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,670 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,020 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,148 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,798 | 17.2 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,776 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,874 | 16.2 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,776 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,008 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,672 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,403 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,948 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,927 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,263 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,221 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,854 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,003 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,246 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,046 | 16.8 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,578 | 25.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laroy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laroy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laroy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laroy, and how old are they?
An estimated 771 Americans named Laroy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 35 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 663 people named Laroy (13 women and girls, 650 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 817,021 babies since 1880, Laroy is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 226 babies recorded by SSA was a Laroy (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 Laroy
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 Laroy and names like it
- Compare Laroy and LarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLaroy peaked in 1989.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laroy since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Laroy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Laroy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.