Loney — boys' name

What the Data Says About Loney

The Social Security Administration has registered 505 babies named Loney between 1883 and 1987, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Loney currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Loney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 280 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loney performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Loney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Loney in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 505 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.