Doy is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Recently, the name Doy has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Doy. That means that a boy named Doy is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Doy.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Doy. Boys named Doy have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,094 Doy ranked higher than ever in 1933. By comparison, there have been 83 years in which the first name Doy has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Doy only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Doy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Doy is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 105 Americans in total bear this name. And these 105 men are located in only five states: Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Doy and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Doy in relation to it’s male population is West Virginia. And yet even there, only one in 21,280 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Doy present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Doy is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Doy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Doy, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Doy
Doy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
O
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
O
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Doy sounds like this:
