# Floy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/floy/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,935 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 323 / 6,612 (95% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 19 | 2,542 |
| 1955 | 17 | 2,757 |
| 1956 | 18 | 2,753 |
| 1957 | 17 | 2,849 |
| 1958 | 10 | 4,028 |
| 1959 | 13 | 3,495 |
| 1960 | 6 | 5,921 |
| 1961 | 5 | 6,876 |
| 1962 | 6 | 6,093 |
| 1963 | 9 | 4,652 |
| 1964 | 5 | 7,086 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,458 |
| 1966 | 7 | 5,441 |
| 1967 | 5 | 7,112 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,828 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 9 | 2,727 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,512 |
| 1933 | 10 | 2,428 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,068 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,724 |
| 1937 | 13 | 2,028 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,668 |
| 1940 | 6 | 3,242 |
| 1941 | 8 | 2,727 |
| 1942 | 5 | 3,754 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,236 |
| 1945 | 7 | 2,840 |
| 1949 | 9 | 2,675 |
| 1950 | 8 | 2,857 |
| 1952 | 5 | 3,923 |

## People named Floy

- Margaret Floy Washburn, American psychologist and scholar (1871-1939)

## 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.