Hoyt
About 8,572 American babies have been named Hoyt since 1880, most of them around 1922. In 2025 it ranked 2,833rd. About 3,700 Hoyts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hoyt boys named Hoyt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,572
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 470th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,833rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 10 / 8,562
How old the living Hoyts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,572 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,700 are alive — 43 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hoyts
- Hoyt Axton (1938–1999)American musician
- Hoyt Vandenberg (1899–1954)U.S. Air Force general
People named Hoyt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hoyt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hoyt is most concentrated in Alabama (10.2×), Georgia (9.5×), South Carolina (7.0×), Arkansas (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Hoyt peaked:
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Hoyt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.