Tay — #8393 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tay

The Social Security Administration has registered 195 babies named Tay between 1939 and 2024, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tay currently holds the #8393 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Tay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 55 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tay performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 62 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tay shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tay 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 195 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.