Troy
Troy is ranked 531st among boys in 2024 (560 births). Its best rank was 40th, in 1967–1968.
- Rank in 2024
- #531down 70 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5600.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 19708,448 births
- Best rank
- #40first in 1967
- Since 1880
- 218,410people given the name
The story in the numbers
215,736 boys have been named Troy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 8,448 births — 0.45% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 276 → 531).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1960s alone account for 28%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,674 girls have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Troy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 139 | |
| 1890s | 299 | |
| 1900s | 620 | |
| 1910s | 3,121 | |
| 1920s | 5,290 | |
| 1930s | 5,370 | |
| 1940s | 6,175 | |
| 1950s | 7,198 | |
| 1960s | 61,410 | |
| 1970s | 48,849 | |
| 1980s | 24,535 | |
| 1990s | 22,820 | |
| 2000s | 14,753 | |
| 2010s | 11,829 | |
| 2020s | 3,328 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Troy was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Troy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrenpeak 1965
- Tadpeak 1966
- Efrempeak 1959
- Scottiepeak 1971
- Darenpeak 1965
- Darronpeak 1965
- Robbypeak 1964
- Parrishpeak 1966
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.