Floy
Floy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 277th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918225 births
- Best rank
- #277in 1889
- Since 1880
- 6,935people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,612 girls have been named Floy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 225 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 225 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 323 boys have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Floy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 395 | |
| 1890s | 699 | |
| 1900s | 774 | |
| 1910s | 1,557 | |
| 1920s | 1,560 | |
| 1930s | 925 | |
| 1940s | 459 | |
| 1950s | 186 | |
| 1960s | 50 | |
| 1970s | 7 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Floy was the 442nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Floy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Altapeak 1918
- Onapeak 1916
- Artiepeak 1916
- Ethelpeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
- Eltapeak 1915
- Florencepeak 1918
- Blanchpeak 1924
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.