Troy

Troy is the 4,522nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,626 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,626
Rank: 4,522nd
How common: 1 in 39,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From Old French Troyes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.8%
Black, not Hispanic 14.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Troy

Mike Troy (1940–2019)American swimmer
Murphy Troy (born 1989)US volleyball player
Pastor Troy (born 1977)American rapper
Doris Troy (1937–2004)American actress and singer

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

Surnames like Troy

Also a first name

Troy has been given to 218,982 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1970. 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.