Coy

Where Coy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Coy.

  • Vowel-ended
Coy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #299
    69 babies named Coy, its best rank.
  3. 1912
    Coy Watson Jr. born
    American child actor of the silent era
  4. 1998
    Coy Stewart born
    American actor
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.