Loye vs Loyola
American parents have registered 621 Loyes since 1880, against 617 Loyolas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Loye Loyola
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 63 years in which either name was published, Loye for 32 years and Loyola for 31 years. The lead changed hands 21 times.
- 1888–1936 Loyola ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1939–1950 Loye ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1951–1953 Loyola ahead
- 1955–1970 Loye ahead
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Loye | Loyola | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 621 | 617 |
| Most in one year | 28 | 27 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 180 | 120 |
| Median age today | 77 | 82 |
| Peak year | 1933 | 1926 |
| Best rank | 1,707th boys | 1,589th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1888 |
| Girls / boys | 173 / 448 | 617 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Loyolas alive today are over 82; half the Loyes are over 77. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Loye and Loyola.