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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Coy

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,451

up +53 places

2025 births

123

up +4 births

All-time births

17,348

1% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1926
264 births
Best rank
#299
in 1910
First recorded
1880
#836 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
144 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1926264#361Peak
  2. 1919257#359
  3. 1918246#380
  4. 1925244#382
  5. 1920241#385

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #299 in 1910 · peak births 264 in 1926

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 95% boys■ 5% girls

17,348 boys · 866 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Coy has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.