Loy

Where Loy comes from

Loy 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. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #470
    20 babies named Loy — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1945
    Loy Petersen born
    American basketball player
  6. 1968
    Loy Vaught born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

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

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.