Given name & surname
Cloy
“one who works with nails”
Cloy is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who works with nails.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who works with nails.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cloy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 131
- 126 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1932
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1944. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1932. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 as a first name in 2020; 398 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cloy’s family of names
Cloy has a related form in Cloyd. Cloy has a related form in Cloyce. Cloy has a related form in Cloi.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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