Foy
Recorded 1889–2005 · United States
Foy was most popular in 1921, when 81 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,519 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,533 people named Foy.
Foy over time
How old is the name Foy?
Foy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1889, which makes it about 136 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 88 of the 137 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Foy?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,533 American births named Foy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 592 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Foy in 2025?
Foy was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Foy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Foy is mostly a boy’s name — 16.6% of the 2,533 Americans given it were girls and 83.4% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Foy?
Roughly 592 Americans named Foy are alive today — 23% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 73 years old, and half are between 62 and 83.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Foy is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org