Coy
Coy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 118 births. Its best rank was 299th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1180.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1926264 births
- Best rank
- #299in 1910
- Since 1880
- 18,088people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,222 boys have been named Coy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 264 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 866 girls have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Coy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | |
| 1890s | 130 | |
| 1900s | 302 | |
| 1910s | 1,557 | |
| 1920s | 2,263 | |
| 1930s | 1,979 | |
| 1940s | 1,824 | |
| 1950s | 1,396 | |
| 1960s | 1,094 | |
| 1970s | 1,049 | |
| 1980s | 1,074 | |
| 1990s | 1,128 | |
| 2000s | 1,395 | |
| 2010s | 1,399 | |
| 2020s | 573 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Coy was the 361st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Coy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Hollispeak 1921
- Everettepeak 1919
- Hiltonpeak 1920
- Eltonpeak 1920
- Altonpeak 1937
- Raymonpeak 1926
- Lovellpeak 1916
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.