girls:
41 births since 2010
#5675 (1st percentile)
boys:
121 births since 1922
#4465 (3rd percentile)
overall:
162 births since 1922
#7577 (2nd percentile)
The name Mays is the #7,577 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 162 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,465 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2010.
Mays first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Mays is available in 17 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 7 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 Mays has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 66.7% of babies named Mays were boys.
For boys, Mays reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #914) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mays ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 85.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mays reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #957) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mays ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 69.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mays".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mays is pronounced as mayz, which has 1 syllables.
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