Loyde vs Loye
American parents have registered 621 Loyes since 1880, against 575 Loydes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Loyde Loye
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 56 years in which either name was published, Loye for 33 years and Loyde for 23 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1915–1924 Loye ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1928–1930 Loyde ahead
- 1931–1945 Loye ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1949–1954 Loyde ahead
- 1955–1958 Loye ahead
- 1965–1967 Loyde ahead
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Loyde | Loye | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 575 | 621 |
| Most in one year | 21 | 28 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 160 | 180 |
| Median age today | 75 | 77 |
| Peak year | 1926 | 1933 |
| Best rank | 1,661st boys | 1,707th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1907 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 575 | 173 / 448 |
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 Loyes alive today are over 77; half the Loydes are over 75. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Loyde and Loye.