girls:
55 births since 1956
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
186 births since 1939
#4400 (4th percentile)
overall:
241 births since 1939
#7498 (3rd percentile)
The name Tay is the #7,498 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 241 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,400 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1939. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1956.
Tay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Tay is available in 34 out of the 84 years between 1939 and 2022 (28 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 Tay has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Tay were boys.
For boys, Tay reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #817) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Tay reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #779) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tay".
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