Bay
3
Babies in 2024
-83%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 19
0%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Bay
Bay has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 3 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 83% on a decade earlier.
Bay reached its peak in 2016, when 19 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,363 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 16% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 18 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 162 boys have been officially registered with the name Bay in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 103 boys were registered with the name, starting from 18 in 2014 and ending at 3 in 2024.