Noy — unisex name
22 babies named Noy in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Noy was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Noy in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Noy
The Social Security Administration has registered 22 babies named Noy between 1994 and 2015, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Noy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Noy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2021.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Noy performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Noy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Noy 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 22 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.
Noy at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Noy popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1994
- Peak year (1999)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
22 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 6 births in a single year.
Noy popularity over time — boys
17 total births recorded since 2021 (Noy as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Noy accounts for 44% of total recorded use across both genders.
Noy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 11 births that decade — 50% of Noy's all-time total
Noy decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Noy's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1994–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.