Loy

At the 2020 census, 8,495 Americans bore the surname Loy — 4,058th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,495
Rank: 4,058th
How common: 1 in 35,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Loy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.1%
Hispanic or Latino 5.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Loy

Myrna Loy (1905–1993)American actress
Nanni Loy (1925–1995)Italian film, theatre and TV director
Yap Ah Loy (1837–1885)Malaysian politician
Rosetta Loy (1931–2022)Italian writer

People named Loy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Loy

Also a first name

Loy has been given to 4,983 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.