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Hoyt

#2,853 in 2025Boys' name

Stick

Hoyt has been given to 8,572 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,853 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 171 recorded.

Babies named Hoyt, 2025

1 in 75,300

Hoyt over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hoyt: meaning, origin, and history

Stick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hoyt means

Hoyt means “stick”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hoyt is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,562 boys were recorded with the name Hoyt between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 171 in 1922; its best national rank was #429 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,970 in 2020 to #2,853 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,390 in 2015 to #2,853 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Hoyt between 1922 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #5,345 in 1922.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hoyt?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,853
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hoyt 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 2025 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hoyt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hoyts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hoyt was born before 1941 — so the typical Hoyt is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,507
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (1,553).

Is Hoyt 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
−366
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−883
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,463
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.7%
Peak was 1922 (171)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#429
1909

Spellings of Hoyt

Hoyt is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 75.8% against Hoyt's 1.6%.

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.

Where Hoyt is used

Across 2016–2025, Hoyt was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 26,400 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 5,556
  2. 2Missouri1 in 7,692
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 10,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 14,286
  6. 6Indiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 20,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Hoyt around the world

Where Hoyt ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #464
    in 1987

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Hoyt

People whose public names include Hoyt, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hoyt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,853
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 883
Best rank ever
#429
1909
Peak year
1922
171 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,562
Count in 2025
44

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,345
1922
Peak year
1922
5 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hoyt

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

HoyleHoyHoyteHoyeCoytDoytHoyetHoyalHoydHoyettHoytt

Names with a curve like Hoyt

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hoyt, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OlinEmileOlenEldenWarnerHershelWiltonHarlandWaltonHollisMerrittElroy

Sibling names for Hoyt

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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