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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Foy

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

2,112

peak year 1921

More common than

93%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
68 births
Best rank
#646
in 1905
First recorded
1889
#914 that year
Last recorded
2005
no later published record
Average birth year
1935
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
85 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192168#836Peak
  2. 192262#875
  3. 192462#874
  4. 191558#797
  5. 191853#911

Rank over time

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

Best rank #646 in 1905 · peak births 68 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 83% boys■ 17% girls

2,112 boys · 421 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 Foy has ranked, decade by decade

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