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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Jay

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#392

up +4 places

2025 births

809

down −13 births

All-time births

195,548

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
5,385 births
Best rank
#78
in 1960
First recorded
1880
#127 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1965
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19605,385#78Peak
  2. 19625,158#80
  3. 19615,119#81
  4. 19585,027#86
  5. 19594,940#88

Rank over time

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

Best rank #78 in 1960 · peak births 5,385 in 1960

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

195,548 boys · 2,584 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 Jay has ranked, decade by decade

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