Tray

Where Tray comes from

The dictionaries list Tray as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Tracy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #3,290 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #1,248
    83 babies named Tray — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,254.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Tracy.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Tray hasn't yet.

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.