Loi
Loi was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 65 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,474, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1959, the peak
Loi peaked in 1959, when 7 babies were given it (0 boys, #0 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,474 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,185 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,474 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,690 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,115 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,530 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,033 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,041 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,246 | |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,169 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | #5,331 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Loi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 65 Americans recorded as Loi, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loi, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Loi 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 2,830 people named Loi (878 women and girls, 1,952 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Loi 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 39,304 babies since 1880, Loi is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 530 babies recorded by SSA was a Loi (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.
More about Loi and names like it
- Compare Loi and LouieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLoi peaked in 1959.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Loi.
- Names starting with LMost given first.