Laray
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to boys 52.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1967 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 422since 1930
Laray 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 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #9,823 | 7 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #12,145 | 5 | |
| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | #9,696 | 7 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
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| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1930
The first year at least five boys were named Laray! It came in at #4,001, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1948, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Laray is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Laray in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Laray
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 984 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,910)
- 166 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1967 at #2,611 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 141,655
- Highest: 1 in 141,655 boys born in 1986 were named Laray (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,611 in 1967, was only 1 in 174,381 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 21.8% of all boys named Laray (92) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2015
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,019 (1949) | #3,272 |
| 1950s | 28 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,163 |
| 1960s | 46 | #2,611 (1967) | #3,642 |
| 1970s | 62 | #3,223 (1973) | #4,079 |
| 1980s | 92 | #3,440 (1986) | #4,667 |
| 1990s | 66 | #4,167 (1990) | #6,824 |
| 2000s | 41 | #6,095 (2009) | #8,928 |
| 2010s | 37 | #8,744 (2015) | #10,771 |
| 2020s | 33 | #7,089 (2021) | #8,929 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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