girls:
23 births since 1942
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
859 births since 1906
#3728 (19th percentile)
overall:
882 births since 1906
#6857 (11th percentile)
The name Wray is the #6,857 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 882 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,728 (18.7% percentile) for all time with 859 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1942.
Wray first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1942 for girls). Birth data for Wray is available in 70 out of the 84 years between 1906 and 1989 (69 years for boys and 4 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 Wray has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wray reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #516) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
For girls, Wray reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #763) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wray".
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