Loy vs Loyce
American parents have registered 4,983 Loys since 1880, against 4,278 Loyces. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Loy Loyce
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Loy for 97 years and Loyce for 26 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1881–1905 Loy ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1910–1912 Loyce ahead
- 1913–1920 Loy ahead
- 1921–1951 Loyce ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1952–2021 Loy ahead, apart from one short spell
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Loy | Loyce | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,983 | 4,278 |
| Most in one year | 109 | 130 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 1,400 |
| Median age today | 69 | 76 |
| Peak year | 1922 | 1933 |
| Best rank | 666th boys | 633rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1901 |
| Girls / boys | 872 / 4,111 | 3,503 / 775 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Loyces alive today are over 76; half the Loys are over 69. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Loy Arkansas (17.8×), Oklahoma (9.4×), Georgia (4.7×)
- Loyce Oklahoma (9.2×), Louisiana (7.9×), Texas (6.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Loy and Loyce.