Coy

Where Coy comes from

Coy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #299
    69 babies named Coy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1912
    Coy Watson Jr. born
    American child actor of the silent era
  4. 1998
    Coy Stewart born
    American actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Coy Stewart · American actor, born 1998
  • Coy Watson Jr. · American child actor of the silent era, 1912–2009
  • Coy Craft · American soccer player, born 1997
  • Coy Bacon · American football player, 1942–2008
  • Coy Privette · American politician, 1933–2015

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.