Tray
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,525since 1959
Tray over time
Rank among boys' names. Tray has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #2,729 | 36 |
| 2002 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #2,578 | 36 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #1,741 | 58 |
| 1997 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #1,682 | 53 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,248 | 83 |
| 1992 | #1,262 | 80 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,106 | 33 |
| 1988 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #1,655 | 41 |
| 1986 | #2,057 | 28 |
| 1985 | #1,644 | 38 |
| 1984 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | #1,631 | 36 |
| 1982 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #1,767 | 22 |
| 1968 | #1,788 | 20 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,132 | 14 |
| 1965 | #1,987 | 16 |
| 1964 | #1,900 | 18 |
| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
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| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tray! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tray is popular in 1983
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#537 · 1 in 7,596
- Texas#1,226 · 1 in 28,426
Best ever in a state: #438 in Alabama, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #537 | 5 | 1 in 7,596 |
| Texas | #1,226 | 5 | 1 in 28,426 |
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See more about Tray
- 3,661 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #10,695)
- 1,127 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1993 at #1,248 (83 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,630 boys born in 1993 were named Tray (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.1% of all boys named Tray (536) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 124 | #1,767 (1969) | #2,462 |
| 1970s | 135 | #2,080 (1972) | #2,911 |
| 1980s | 287 | #1,631 (1983) | #2,235 |
| 1990s | 536 | #1,248 (1993) | #1,775 |
| 2000s | 275 | #2,578 (2000) | #3,542 |
| 2010s | 129 | #5,478 (2010) | #6,541 |
| 2020s | 32 | #7,034 (2020) | #9,108 |
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.
Tray in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 49,793 of them was named Tray, which outranked 77.8% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,594Truman37
- #1,594Tyshawn37
- #1,594Vishal37
- #1,631Tray36
- #1,631Addison36
- #1,631Angela36
- #1,631Antwone36
- #1,651Ace35
- #1,651Antonino35
- #1,651Arash35
Tied with 19 names at #1,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.