girls:
54 births since 1972
#5662 (1st percentile)
boys:
375 births since 1972
#4211 (8th percentile)
overall:
429 births since 1972
#7310 (6th percentile)
The name Chay is the #7,310 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 429 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,211 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 375 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,662 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 54 births since 1972.
Chay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 . Birth data for Chay is available in 39 out of the 45 years between 1972 and 2016 (39 years for boys and 9 years for girls). 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 Chay has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2016, 100.0% of babies named Chay were boys.
For boys, Chay reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #744) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Chay reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chay".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Chay is pronounced as chay, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shay, at 16.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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