Lay

girls:

12 births since 2014

#5704 (0th percentile)

boys:

28 births since 1918

#4558 (1st percentile)

overall:

40 births since 1918

#7699 (0th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lay".

1918 2016 19182016

Key Statistics

Total Births
12
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
2014
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#957
Current Rank
#957
Female statistics
Total Births
28
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#530
Current Rank
#919
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Lay

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Lay is pronounced as lay.

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100.0%
lay (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
L EY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Lay. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Lay, please vote using the thumbs up button.

lee (1 syllable)
9 names 377.4k births
L IY1

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.