as a First Name
U.S.: of uncertain origin. It is hardly likely to be from the modern English vocabulary word, which has both feminine and pejorative connotations. It probably represents a transferred use of the surname Coy or perhaps McCoy, a variant of McKay, meaning ‘son of Aodh’.
| 1,915th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,580
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 11,018
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Coy per capita
- 1919
- marked the height of its popularity
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100%
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22%
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10%
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17%
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