Jay
34
Peak · 1998
2008
Last seen
13
Years on list
222
Total babies
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 Jay
Jay is a historical UK girl's name no longer in active use. The most recent year it appeared on the ONS list for England & Wales was 2008.
Jay reached its peak in 1998, when 34 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #701 for UK girls that year. Since then, registrations have dropped below the ONS reporting threshold of three babies per year.
Across 13 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 222 girls have been officially registered with the name Jay in England & Wales. It has not appeared on the published list since 2008.