# Chay (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chay/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 429 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 375 / 54 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 524, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | 8,477 |
| 1973 | 8 | 6,171 |
| 1974 | 6 | 7,841 |
| 1984 | 6 | 9,335 |
| 1989 | 5 | 12,748 |
| 1990 | 6 | 11,678 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,782 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,699 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,201 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | 6,067 |
| 1997 | 10 | 5,714 |
| 1998 | 9 | 6,401 |
| 1999 | 5 | 10,158 |
| 2001 | 10 | 6,537 |
| 2002 | 16 | 4,734 |
| 2003 | 10 | 6,812 |
| 2004 | 10 | 7,060 |
| 2006 | 10 | 7,522 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,053 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,040 |
| 2009 | 11 | 7,304 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,572 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,800 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8,996 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 2,350 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | 1,981 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2011 | 15 | 1,522 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Chay

- Chay Hews, Australian association football player
- Chay Genoway, Canadian ice hockey player
- Chay Shegog, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Chay Suede, Brazilian actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.