Loy — boys' name

What the Data Says About Loy

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,111 babies named Loy between 1881 and 2021, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Loy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 93 babies received it in a single year. Loy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 872 additional births since 1895.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 825 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Loy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 433 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Loy in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loy 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 4,111 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.