Troy
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Troyes’, northern France; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Troighthigh, ‘descendant of Troightheach’, meaning ‘foot soldier’; (iii) anglicization of various similar-sounding Jewish names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Troy is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.8K
- GYGuyana1 in 526
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 571 (measured from records)
- 1 in 526 (inferred from the name graph)
≈660,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘person from Troyes’, northern France; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Troighthigh, ‘descendant of Troightheach’, meaning ‘foot soldier’; (iii) anglicization of various similar-sounding Jewish names.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Troy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Troy | 39 |
| US United States | 162,599 | 1 in 2K | 161K | Troy | 571 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 6 | Troy | 235 |
| AU Australia | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 84 | Troy | 263 |
| CA Canada | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 5 | Troy | 241 |
| GY Guyana | 1,425 | 1 in 526 | 1.4K | — | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Troy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Troyes, Aube; first attested Elyas de Troie 1200 P (Bk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, An ancient city in what is now northwestern Turkey.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Troy är dels en form av Troyes, ett franskt ortnamn som användes som efternamn i England, dels och framför allt idag den engelska formen av namnet på den klassiska staden Troja (Ilion). Namnet används idag som förnamn särskilt i USA och Australien, och ges sedan ett par årtionden även till barn i Sverige.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, ancient city, Asia Minor; pi nam
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Khmer, p, to mark (by tying a string, piece of cloth, etc. to a post or by setting up a marker). 2. a. fast, quickly. lr\mn to keep one’s eye on something (with a view to eventually obtaining it). [riCU
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Troy Kennedy Martinb. 1932GBBritish screenwriter (1932–2009)
- Troy Donahueb. 1936USAmerican actor (1936-2001)
- Troy Evansb. 1948USAmerican actor
- Troy Aikmanb. 1966USAmerican professional football player
- Troy Kotsurb. 1968USAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Troy Winbushb. 1970USAmerican actor (1970-)
- Troy Duffyb. 1971USAmerican film director
- Troy Garityb. 1973USAmerican actor
- Troy Bakerb. 1976USAmerican voice actor (born 1976)
- Troy Deeneyb. 1988GBEnglish association football player (born 1988)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 161K | #343 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.4K | #24 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #343 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 563 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1993 | 84 | #96 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1995 | 52 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2020 | 6 | #270 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 5 | #795 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 3 | #727 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Troy mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Troyes’, northern France; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Troighthigh, ‘descendant of Troightheach’, meaning ‘foot soldier’; (iii) anglicization of various similar-sounding Jewish names. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Troy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 162,599 people named Troy in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- In which country does Troy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 663 thousand people named Troy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled troy.
- Where is Troy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Troy is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 526 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/troyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Troy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.