Tay

Where Tay comes from

Clipping of Taylor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tay
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1939
    Debut at its peak, #3,480
    #3,480 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2019
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the unisex given name Taylor.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.