Klay
Klay was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,882 among boys’ names; 1,616 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Klay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Klay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Klay?
#1,882 among boys’ names, 2025
Klay rose from #2,157 in 2015 to #1,882 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 49.2 per million.
103 babies in 2022, the peak
Klay peaked in 2022, when 103 boys were given it, #1,669 among boys’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,882 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,109 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,706 | 57.9 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,669 | 59.0 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,101 | 39.4 |
| 2020 | 93 | #1,692 | 53.9 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,731 | 50.7 |
| 2018 | 90 | #1,729 | 49.6 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,907 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,632 | 51.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,157 | 33.4 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,575 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,622 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,793 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,292 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,357 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,494 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,649 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,887 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,424 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,739 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,383 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,204 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,819 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,212 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,115 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,771 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,446 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,218 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,482 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,979 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,589 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,591 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,460 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,269 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,392 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,610 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,147 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,678 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,679 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,784 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,025 | 5.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,740 | 6.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,584 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,376 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,695 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,573 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,305 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,256 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,535 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,686 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,778 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,452 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,737 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,504 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,368 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,238 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,779 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,358 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,161 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Klay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Klay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Klay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Klay, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,616 Americans ever recorded as Klay. The median Klay alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,098 people named Klay (44 women and girls, 1,054 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 275 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 990 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Klay born?
The states with the most babies named Klay are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,103 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,196 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,342 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #1,914 | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | #939 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 5 | #758 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Klay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Klay?
Klay is a less common spelling of Clay: SSA has recorded 1,616 Klay and 40,525 Clay since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 42,459 babies since 1880, Klay is the second most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 623 babies (13%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Klay
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Klay and names like it
- Compare Klay and ClayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKlay peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Klay since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Klay.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Klay alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.