Loye
Loye was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 621 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,159, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1939, the peak
Loye peaked in 1939, when 28 babies were given it (16 boys, #1,766 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,159 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,220 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,245 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,874 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 9 | #2,977 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,428 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,345 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,634 | 11 | #2,593 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,647 | 6 | #3,812 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,500 | 6 | #3,782 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | under 5 | 12 | #2,386 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,134 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,587 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,770 | 5 | #3,992 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 8 | #2,928 | |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,441 | 10 | #2,551 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,592 | 10 | #2,600 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 9 | #2,629 | |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,868 | 11 | #2,202 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,565 | |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,680 | 10 | #2,495 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 12 | #2,217 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,227 | 15 | #1,867 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 15 | #1,860 | |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,513 | 16 | #1,766 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 12 | #2,142 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,077 | 13 | #2,053 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,578 | 8 | #2,768 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,854 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,104 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,621 | 17 | #1,748 |
| 1932 | under 5 | 12 | #2,270 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,713 | 14 | #2,064 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,889 | 9 | #2,915 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,142 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 9 | #2,978 | |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,595 | 13 | #2,365 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 15 | #2,151 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,599 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 12 | #2,569 | |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,527 | 7 | #3,678 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,459 | 12 | #2,577 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,434 | 7 | #3,690 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,609 | |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,404 | 11 | #2,636 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,939 | 8 | #3,091 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,434 | 8 | #3,075 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,052 | 7 | #3,258 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,551 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,401 | |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,736 | 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 Loye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 621 Americans recorded as Loye, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loye, and how old are they?
An estimated 176 Americans named Loye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 351 people named Loye (134 women and girls, 217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 238 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,359 babies since 1880, Loye is the third most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 530 babies recorded by SSA was a Loye (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 Loye
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 Loye and names like it
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- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Loye.
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