Coy
Coy reached its high-water mark in 1926 at number 359, and has been recorded 18,214 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,451st. About 9,700 Coys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Coy boys named Coy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,214
- Estimated living today
- 9,700
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1926
- Best rank
- 359th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,451st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 866 / 17,348
How old the living Coys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,214 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,700 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Coys
- Coy Stewart (born 1998)American actor
People named Coy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Coy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Coy is most concentrated in Arkansas (7.6×), Oklahoma (5.1×), North Carolina (4.6×), Kentucky (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1926
The most popular boys’ names the year Coy peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.