How rare is the name Coy?

8,805 people in the United States have the first name Coy, about 1 in 34,302. It ranks #2,670 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

COY

#2,670

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,805
About
1 in 34,302
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,805 people named Coy, 83.3% reported their origin as White, 8.7% as Black and 3.8% as two or more races. 95.7% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Coy peaked in 1919, when 279 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
279
In 2025*
123 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 18,214 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Coy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #787. The largest share of babies named Coy, 22.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,61359
1890s#1,293152
1900s#914372
1910s#7871,718
1920s#8122,424
1930s#8272,104
1940s#9861,927
1950s#1,3761,467
1960s#1,6811,143
1970s#1,8611,087
1980s#2,0701,093
1990s#2,4741,144
2000s#2,6111,412
2010s#2,7941,414
2020s#3,217698
Before 19011.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2722.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4520.7%
Baby boom 1946–6415.5%
Generation X 1965–809.4%
Millennials 1981–969.4%
Generation Z 1997–1212.3%
2013 and later9.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Coy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Coy has been most common in Arkansas (7.5×), Oklahoma (5.1×), and North Carolina (4.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.07×).

12,122 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Coy

#2,668 Ivana · 8,816#2,669 Tera · 8,809#2,671 Braelyn · 8,800#2,672 Izaiah · 8,798

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Coy, most common first.

#12,741 Co · 968#24,497 Coe · 393#24,628 Coye · 390#30,958 Coi · 279#39,915 Coya · 188#43,502 Coey · 162

Also a last name

As a last name, Coy ranks #2,855 of 156,621, with 12,304 people. See Coy as a last name

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