Tay
- Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682
- #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Given to boys 78.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1939 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 205since 1939
Tay 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 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,312 | 9 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #9,823 | 7 | |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #12,145 | 5 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | #12,246 | 5 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
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| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #8,117 | 5 |
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| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | — | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | #3,640 | 6 |
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| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1939
The first year at least five boys were named Tay! It came in at #3,480, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1939–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tay is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Tay in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tay
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 633 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #7,679)
- 2,965 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 1939 at #3,480 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1940, 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 149,452
- Highest: 1 in 149,452 boys born in 2001 were named Tay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,480 in 1939, was only 1 in 221,370 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 30.2% of all boys named Tay (62) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,480 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,505 (1955) | #3,505 |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,640 (1962) | #3,650 |
| 1970s | 6 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,123 |
| 1980s | 8 | #4,593 (1982) | #4,593 |
| 1990s | 25 | #6,128 (1992) | #7,591 |
| 2000s | 62 | #5,390 (2001) | #8,946 |
| 2010s | 44 | #8,767 (2011) | #10,631 |
| 2020s | 31 | #7,679 (2025) | #9,490 |
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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