Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Hoy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hoy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Hoy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Hoy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Hoy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Hoy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Hoy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hoy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1910 12 0.000020315 12 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 -100%
1916 16 0.000008271 16 -100%
1917 22 0.000010963 22 -100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 -100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 -100%
1920 25 0.000011049 25 -100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 -100%
1922 19 0.0000083 19 -100%
1923 36 0.000015635 36 -100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 -100%
1925 21 0.000009 21 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 19 0.000008192 19 -100%
1928 21 0.000009288 21 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 14 0.000006297 14 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 14 0.000006354 14 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 16 0.000005669 16 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Hoy:

  1. Howe
  2. Howell
  3. Howie
  4. Howl
  5. Howland
  6. Hoy (this page)
  7. Hoyal
  8. Hoyd
  9. Hoye
  10. Hoyet
  11. Hoyett