Name: Coy
Gender: Male
Usage: Coy is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Coy are in general originating from United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Coy is: Quiet person, Woods.
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Numerology of the first name Coy: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Coy is ranked on the 5,627th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 52700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Coy has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Coy for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Coy is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Bernard Coy (1991), an American bank robber, famous for trying to escape from Alcatraz prison
- Bobby Coy, English former football player
- Eric Coy, Canadian Olympic discus thrower and shot putter
- John Coy, American children's book author
- Jeffrey Coy, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Jonathan Coy, British actor
- Juan Coy, Minister of State for Human Development in Belize
- Michelle Coy, British bobsledder
- Randi Coy, participant in the reality show My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance
- Steve Coy, English drummer, manager, producer, and songwriter for new wave band Dead or Alive
- Ted Coy, American college football player
- Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1947-1952)
Given name:
- Coy Gibbs, former NASCAR car driver and National Football League (NFL) assistant coach
- Coy Bacon, former NFL player
- Coy Bowles, guitarist and keyboardist in Zac Brown Band
- Coy Wire, NFL player
- Coy Watson, Jr., American child actor
- Coy Cook, American singer
- Coy Privette, Baptist pastor and politician under the shadow of a scandal
Fictional characters:
- Coy Duke, fictional character on the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard
U.S.: of uncertain origin. It is hardly likely to be from the modern English vocabulary word, which has both feminine and pejorative connotations. It probably represents a transferred use of the surname Coy, or it may be of Irish origin (from McCoy, a variant of McKay, meaning ‘son of Aodh’; Aodh was an old Gaelic name meaning ‘fire’).
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6 May 2019
My name is Coylette. I am female 67 years of age & have always dropped the lette to be known as Coy.
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