Bay — #7012 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bay

The Social Security Administration has registered 516 babies named Bay between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bay currently holds the #7012 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Bay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 203 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bay performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 357 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bay in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bay in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 516 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.