Jay
78
Babies in 2024
-73%
10-year change
2001
Peak · 983
-2%
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 Jay
Jay peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (983 babies in 2001) and has remained in active use — 78 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Jay reached its peak in 2001, when 983 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #59 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 78 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 14,641 boys have been officially registered with the name Jay in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,639 boys were registered with the name, starting from 285 in 2014 and ending at 78 in 2024.