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The table below indicates the number of times the name Gay has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Gay**
Use of the Name Gay for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
97	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Gay has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Gay first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1883, which is the first year shown on the table. Gay last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1969, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Gay**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1883	951	5
1884
1885
1886	892	6
1887			759	10
1888	777	8	700	14
1889			770	12
1890	773	8	677	16
1891	889	6	813	12
1892			696	18
1893			728	17
1894	898	7	724	17
1895
1896	929	7	822	16
1897			909	13
1898			898	15
1899	893	7	610	26
1900			874	19
1901			936	13
1902			855	17
1903			820	18
1904			918	16
1905			982	15
1906			977	15
1907			753	25
1908			893	20
1909			801	26
1910			848	26
1911			909	23
1912
1913			912	34
1914			925	41
1915			852	59
1916			820	68
1917			807	73
1918			878	67
1919			846	68
1920			981	56
1921
1922
1923			887	69
1924			997	59
1925			821	82
1926			804	82
1927			811	81
1928			754	89
1929			650	115
1930			546	155
1931			500	166
1932			448	217
1933			429	227
1934			427	236
1935			396	265
1936			353	320
1937			344	340
1938			363	323
1939			347	338
1940			378	307
1941	983	43	341	368
1942			356	387
1943			315	485
1944			343	397
1945			346	393
1946			335	488
1947			340	541
1948			360	471
1949			357	487
1950			358	483
1951			344	538
1952			319	642
1953			350	577
1954			338	634
1955			396	494
1956			391	526
1957			373	585
1958			425	488
1959			362	682
1960			380	627
1961			395	595
1962			460	447
1963			498	380
1964			526	350
1965			544	303
1966			620	235
1967			735	177
1968			762	170
1969			944	127
Totals:		97		17,433

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gay as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Gay appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 9 times during the last 125 years.

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