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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Chay

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

375

peak year 1992

More common than

79%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1992
17 births
Best rank
#3,045
in 1973
First recorded
1972
#3,392 that year
Last recorded
2016
no later published record
Average birth year
1992
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
39 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199217#3,630Peak
  2. 200216#4,734
  3. 199115#3,836
  4. 198914#3,838
  5. 198112#3,446

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,045 in 1973 · peak births 17 in 1992

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 87% boys■ 13% girls

375 boys · 54 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Chay has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.