Bay
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
- Given to girls 71.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 75 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 523since 1987
Bay over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #2,533 | 70 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | — | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1987
The first year at least five girls were named Bay! It came in at #11,325, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bay is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Bay in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Bay
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 5,000 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #11,932)
- 3,526 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #11,932)
- 8,968 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2014 at #2,412 (75 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,818
- Highest: 1 in 23,818 girls born in 2014 were named Bay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 68.3% of all girls named Bay (357) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #11,325 (1987) | #11,325 |
| 1990s | 34 | #8,584 (1998) | #11,582 |
| 2000s | 62 | #8,534 (2000) | #12,613 |
| 2010s | 357 | #2,412 (2014) | #5,568 |
| 2020s | 65 | #6,932 (2024) | #9,403 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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