Loay
#11,465 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Loay has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,465 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Loay, 2025
1 in 553,000
Loay over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Loay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,465
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Loay sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Loays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Loay was born before 2017 — so the typical Loay is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 61.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 86
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Loay 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,287
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 54.5%
- Peak was 2017 (11)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.9% average annual change
Spellings of Loay
Loay is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 16.5% against Loay'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.
Where Loay is used
Across 1910–2025, Loay was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
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. Loay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Loay around the world
Where Loay 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.
- England & Wales2011–2021#4,789in 2021
- France2004–2025#2,131in 2025
- Canada2008–2008#2,338in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Loay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Loay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Loay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.