The first name Floy
A girl’s name.
1 syllable Female
Meaning and origin
A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
Floy is a short form of
.From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Floy at birth, 1880–2025
In 1971, 7 girls born in the United States were named Floy, the 6,828th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1918, when 225 were.
GirlsBoys
6,935
babies named Floy since 1880
#6,828
rank in 1971
1918
peak year
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Famous people named Floy
1 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Margaret Floy WashburnAmerican psychologist and scholar (1871-1939)
Questions
- Is Floy a boy's or a girl's name?
- Mostly a girl's name: 95% of the 6,935 US babies named Floy since 1880 were girls.
- When was Floy most popular?
- 1918 in the United States, when 225 babies were named Floy, its highest rank at 442nd.