# Coy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/coy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 18,214 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,348 / 866 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | 8,520 |
| 1973 | 5 | 8,683 |
| 1974 | 10 | 5,423 |
| 1983 | 7 | 8,210 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,306 |
| 1988 | 7 | 9,481 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,826 |
| 1994 | 5 | 13,905 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,216 |
| 2000 | 5 | 15,576 |
| 2002 | 6 | 13,989 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,672 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,381 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,153 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 118 | 1,406 |
| 2012 | 161 | 1,135 |
| 2013 | 156 | 1,155 |
| 2014 | 152 | 1,209 |
| 2015 | 137 | 1,297 |
| 2016 | 141 | 1,289 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,278 |
| 2018 | 129 | 1,365 |
| 2019 | 128 | 1,387 |
| 2020 | 127 | 1,379 |
| 2021 | 104 | 1,622 |
| 2022 | 121 | 1,498 |
| 2023 | 104 | 1,653 |
| 2024 | 119 | 1,504 |
| 2025 | 123 | 1,451 |

## People named Coy

- Coy Stewart, American actor
- Coy Watson Jr., American child actor of the silent era (1912-2009)
- Coy Craft, American soccer player
- Luke Perry, American actor (1966–2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.