Foy
Foy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 646th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192168 births
- Best rank
- #646in 1905
- Since 1889
- 2,533people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,112 boys have been named Foy in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 68 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 68 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Foy is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (421), most of them born around 1912.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Foy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 19 | |
| 1900s | 53 | |
| 1910s | 375 | |
| 1920s | 522 | |
| 1930s | 376 | |
| 1940s | 325 | |
| 1950s | 210 | |
| 1960s | 123 | |
| 1970s | 64 | |
| 1980s | 28 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Foy was the 836th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Foy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Odispeak 1921
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Haroldpeak 1924
- Bufordpeak 1921
- Murrellpeak 1923
- Odellpeak 1922
- Norwoodpeak 1921
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.