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Cloy

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cloy has been given to 131 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Cloy, 1944

1 in 448,000

Cloy over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cloy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cloy means

Cloy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cloy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 boys were recorded with the name Cloy between 1914 and 1944. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1932; its best national rank was #2,119 in 1932.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Cloy between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1918; its best national rank was #4,967 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Cloy?

Cloy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1944, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1944
1 in 448,000
6 of 2,689,998 births
Among boys only
1 in 227,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1944
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
310,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cloy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1944 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 310,762 children born in 1944 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cloy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cloys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cloy was born before 1929 — so the typical Cloy is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Cloy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1932 (13)
Years since peak
93
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,119
1932

Spellings of Cloy

Cloy is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 25.2% against Cloy's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cloy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,119
1932
Peak year
1932
13 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1944
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,967
1918
Peak year
1918
5 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cloy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cloy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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