Flay — boys' name

What the Data Says About Flay

The Social Security Administration has registered 80 babies named Flay between 1915 and 1956, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Flay currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1956. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Flay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Flay performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Flay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Flay in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Flay 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 80 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.