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Troy
Pronounced /tɹɔɪ/
Rank in 2024
#530
Born in 2024
560
Peak year
1970 · #41
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 560 boys were named Troy, about 1 in every 3,063.
- It peaked in 1970 with 8,448 babies, ranked #41.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 215,736 boys have been named Troy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Troy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.9Boomers1946–64
- 3.3Gen X1965–80
- 1.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,894 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Silent: 10,035 babies, 0.49 per 1,000. Boomers: 34,415 babies, 0.92 per 1,000. Gen X: 88,452 babies, 3.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 39,032 babies, 1.28 per 1,000. Gen Z: 24,482 babies, 0.78 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10,919 babies, 0.50 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Latin Troia, from Ancient Greek Τροία (Troía). ==== Proper noun ==== Troy (historical) An ancient city in what is now northwestern Turkey. A male given name. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Pike County, Alabama. A city in Madison County, Illinois. A township and town therein, in Perry County, Indiana. A small city, the county seat of Doniphan County, Kansas. A town in Waldo County, Maine. A city in Michigan. A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Missouri. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
- A male given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, but today associated with the classical city.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /tɹɔɪ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Troy, CC BY-SA 4.0.