Loy

Where Loy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Loy.

  • Vowel-ended
Loy through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #470
    20 babies named Loy, its best rank.
  3. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #874.
  4. 1909
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1945
    Loy Petersen born
    American basketball player
  6. 1968
    Loy Vaught born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Loy Vaught · American basketball player, born 1968
  • Loy Petersen · American basketball player, born 1945

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.