Chay

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chay: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chay: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #407, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#407highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2000

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
2000	#3912

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #407 among boys in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Chay appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 515 births with the name.

Chay across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Chay's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#472 (1996)	#407 (1997)	#5119 (2024)	28 of 29	515 (1996–2024)	54 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#2350 (1996)	#3912 (2000)	2 of 5	9 (1996–2000)	6 (1996)

Chay by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chay in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	175	4 of 10	44
2000sbusiest	214	10 of 10	21
2010s	108	10 of 10	11
2020s	18	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chay appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #407 in England and Wales in 1997.

Chay's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1306	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#984	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#795	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#805	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#638	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#579	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#516	38	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#462	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#407	54	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#472	39	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #407, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
27 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#5,119position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
54births registered in its largest year, 199750 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Akshay · #406, 29y
Hasnain · #410, 29y
Haseeb · #403, 29y
Sheldon · #402, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kallie · #407, 29y
Akshay · #406, 29y
Orion · #406, 29y
Raheem · #406, 29y

Chay was ranked #407 in England and Wales · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chay and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chay without appearing here.

Chay moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 1996 they stood at #472 and #402 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #407 and #471.

Moved ahead of Chay

Marius Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1522 and #1600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #1270.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2018.
Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2266 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #1935.
Hans Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2320.

Moved the opposite way to Chay

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Chay

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chay went from #472 to #5119 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #407 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chay

Chay at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chay across 2 official records

Chay by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Chay appears in

Popularity data

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Chay at a glance

Chay across 2 official records

Chay by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Chay and the names beside it

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