This page shows the Jay (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Jay was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Jay's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Jay for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Jay appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 3,398 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2008, when the table records 205 babies given the name, at rank 33 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Jay for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202520208
202414278
202317241
202223191
202124191
202027168
201932163
201832168
201746130
201656117
20158184
20148683
201311560
201211164
201116447
201014551
200919336
200820533
200716449
200615852
200516346
200417843
200316742
200218339
200116447
200011959
19999370
19988676
19977091
199659101
199548112
199443115
199347116
199244115
199131131
199013186
19899203
198816149
198716149
198611173
19859190
198419126
198313155
198213154
19819185
19809188
197913152
19788192
19777204
19766227
197513164
19746236

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