girls:
241 births since 1939
#5475 (4th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1919
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
252 births since 1919
#7487 (3rd percentile)
The name Cay is the #7,487 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 252 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,475 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 241 births since 1939. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1919.
Cay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1939 for girls). Birth data for Cay is available in 22 out of the 48 years between 1919 and 1966 (20 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cay has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1939, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1919 to 1938), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1939 to 1966).
For girls, Cay reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #695) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1966.
For boys, Cay reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #534) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cay".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cay is pronounced as kay, which has 1 syllables.
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