Given name & surname · also Khmer
Koy
Koy is a surname from Khmer, ultimately from German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Koy comes from Khmer, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Koy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 979
- 945 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 46 babies
- 2025
- 18
- #5,319 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −5%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 18 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,319 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 4.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 46 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,118 as a first name in 2020; 704 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.
Koy’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Koy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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