Gay
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
17,985
peak year 1959
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 682 births
- Best rank
- #315
- in 1943
- First recorded
- 1886
- #1,175 that year
- Last recorded
- 1982
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1948
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 95 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1959682#362Peak
- 1952643#318
- 1954632#338
- 1960626#381
- 1961596#396
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #315 in 1943 · peak births 682 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 7% boys■ 93% girls
1,382 boys · 17,985 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 Gay has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.