Loay
Loay was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,465 among boys’ names; 86 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loay?
#11,465 among boys’ names, 2025
Loay entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,465 in 2025.
11 babies in 2017, the peak
Loay peaked in 2017, when 11 boys were given it, #7,363 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,465 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,917 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,178 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,403 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,936 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,363 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,924 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,290 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,685 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,467 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #10,929 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Loay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loay, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Loay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Loay (4 women and girls, 267 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,095 babies since 1880, Loay is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 35 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
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 Loay
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 Loay and names like it
- Compare Loay and LoyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLoay peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loay since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Loay.
- Names starting with LMost given first.