Clay
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#573
down −29 places
2025 births
515
down −30 births
All-time births
40,252
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1960
- 904 births
- Best rank
- #259
- in 1961
- First recorded
- 1880
- #406 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1977
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1960904#265Peak
- 1961900#259
- 1959826#276
- 1958723#284
- 1995714#344
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #259 in 1961 · peak births 904 in 1960
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
40,252 boys · 273 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 Clay has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.