Lay**
#21,024 most common boys' name of all time · #55,375 across all names · 70% male / 30% female · used 1918–2016 · genuinely unisex
Rank among boys
#21,024
Rank overall
#55,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1918
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
40
Since 2016
12
Peak year
2016 #9,792
Best rank
#4,140 1918
Girls
Boys
peak 12/yr
Lay first appears in 1918. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.