Klay

maleStatistical record

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

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

Klay: Recorded since 1996, it reached #415 in 2017, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#415highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#2859
2004	#2304
2007	#4333
2010	#2941
2011	#2613
2012	#3416
2013	#1183
2014	#825
2015	#927
2016	#774
2017	#730
2018	#731
2019	#974
2020	#829
2021	#907
2022	#1029
2023	#1309
2024	#1162

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 19 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #619 among boys in Scotland, #1162 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Klay appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 429 births with the name.

Klay 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.

Klay'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	#2357 (1996)	#730 (2017)	#1162 (2024)	19 of 29	429 (1996–2024)	47 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#637 (2020)	#577 (2025)	#577 (2025)	2 of 6	9 (2020–2025)	5 (2025)

Klay 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 Klay in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	9	2 of 10	5
2010s	272	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	141	5 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 28 births a year.

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

Klay appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Klay'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	#1162	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1309	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1029	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#829	36	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#974	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#731	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#730	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#774	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#825	37	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #415, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Klaudia · #187, 42y
Klaus · #175, 60y
Klayton · #764, 22y
Klea · #1711, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, 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.

Axl · #415, 23y
Moise · #414, 18y
Avie · #418, 19y
Cruze · #418, 16y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Axl · #415, 23y
Emaan · #415, 27y
Kaiser · #415, 24y
Siena · #415, 29y

Klay was ranked #415 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2017. 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.

Klay 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 Klay without appearing here.

Klay moved ahead of

Arne Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4333 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #927 and #4747.
Harald Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2859 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #927 and #4747.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #825 and #4632.
Espen Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3416 and #3039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1183 and #4685.

Moved ahead of Klay

Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1761.
Theodor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #825 and #1012 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #927 and #873.

Moved the opposite way to Klay

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Klay

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Klay went from #2357 to #1162 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Klay

Klay at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Klay across 2 official records

Klay by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Klay at a glance

Klay across 2 official records

Klay by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Names published alongside Klay

Klay and the names beside it

Klay moved ahead of

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