Mays — #7278 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mays

The Social Security Administration has registered 132 babies named Mays between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mays currently holds the #7278 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Mays is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mays performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mays shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mays in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mays 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 132 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.