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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Tay

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#8,180

up +730 places

2025 births

10

up +1 births

All-time births

205

5% of them in 2025

More common than

72%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2001
13 births
Best rank
#3,841
in 1955
First recorded
1939
#3,923 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
30 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 200113#5,635Peak
  2. 202510#8,180
  3. 20059#8,226
  4. 20089#8,934
  5. 20249#8,910

Rank over time

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

Best rank #3,841 in 1955 · peak births 13 in 2001

Boys and girls

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

● 79% boys■ 21% girls

205 boys · 55 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 Tay has ranked, decade by decade

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