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Tray

#11,858 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Tracy

Tray has been given to 1,525 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #11,858 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Tray, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tray over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tray: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Tracy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tray means

Tray is a diminutive of Tracy.

Origin, language, and formation

Tray is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tracy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,525 boys were recorded with the name Tray between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,248 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,449 in 2020 to #11,858 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,532 in 2015 to #11,858 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tray?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,858
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tray sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tray was born before 1993 — so the typical Tray is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,525
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Choose a decade

1990s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (536).

Is Tray rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,409
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,326
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.2%
Peak was 1993 (83)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,248
1993

Spellings of Tray

Tray is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 17.8% against Tray's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tray is used

Across 1910–2025, Tray was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 286,265 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tray has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tray around the world

Where Tray ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • Canada
    2003–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tray by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,858
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,409
Best rank ever
#1,248
1993
Peak year
1993
83 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,525
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tray

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tray

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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