Floy

Where Floy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Floy.

  • Vowel-ended
Floy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #333 among girls, with 23 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Floy Little Bartlett born
    American composer
  3. 1889
    Peak, #277
    74 babies named Floy, its best rank.
  4. 1922
    Floy Agnes Lee born
    American biologist
  5. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,576.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
Namesakes
  • Floy Agnes Lee · American biologist, 1922–2018
  • Floy Little Bartlett · American composer, 1883–1956

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.