Chay — boys' name

What the Data Says About Chay

The Social Security Administration has registered 375 babies named Chay between 1972 and 2016, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chay currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Chay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chay performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Chay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chay in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chay 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 375 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.