Troy
Troy is a boy's name that peaked in 1970, when it was the 41st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 532nd. About 180,000 Troys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Troy boys named Troy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 218,982
- Estimated living today
- 180,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 41st
- Rank in 2025
- 532nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,674 / 216,308
How old the living Troys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 218,982 babies given the name since 1880, about 180,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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.
Where the name comes from
From Latin Troia, from Ancient Greek Τροία.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Troys
- Troy Kotsur (born 1968)American actor
- Troy Baker (born 1976)American voice actor
- Troy Deeney (born 1988)English association football player
- Troy Donahue (1936–2001)American actor
- Troy Parrott (born 2002)Irish association football player
- Troy Garity (born 1973)American actor
- Troy Aikman (born 1966)American professional football player
- Troy Murphy (born 1980)American basketball player
People named Troy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Troy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Troy is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.1×), South Dakota (2.0×), Utah (2.0×), Wyoming (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Troy peaked:
Troy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Troy | 3,927 | 196th |
| New Zealand boys | Troy | 2,423 | 55th |
| Ireland boys | Troy | 477 | 233rd |
| Norway boys | Troy | 315 | 217th |
| Scotland boys | Troy | 186 | 224th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Troy | 183 | 175th |
| Belgium boys | Troy | 66 | 800th |
| France boys | Troy | 50 | 5,170th |
| Switzerland boys | Troy | 31 | 912th |
| England and Wales girls | Troy | 3 | 3,848th |
| Poland boys | Troy | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Troy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Troy | 26 | 0.002% | 732nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Troy | 5 | 0.001% | 704th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Troy: rank by region
In 2017, Troy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Troy | 869 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Troy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Troy | 59 | 75 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Troy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.