Aloy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AL-oy
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Aloy is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Aloy mean?
Modern: name of a video game heroine
Aloy is the heroine of the video games Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Horizon Forbidden West (2022).
Is Aloy a girl's or a boy's name?
Aloy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aloy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Aloy, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2018.
2025 had the fewest girls named Aloy since it first appeared, in 2018.
Half of all the girls named Aloy in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aloy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
Names like Aloy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wrenley, Lucy, Ada, Ailany, Nora, Daisy, Analeia, Haisley, Millie, Josie, Oaklynn, Cora
Names related to Aloy
More Modern names
Jayden, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Mya, Ailani, Kayson
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aloy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aloy, updated 20 October 2026.