Jáy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jáy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 17th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English jay, from Old French jai ("jay"; Modern French geai), either from Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or from Old French gai (“gay, merry”), so named due to its plumage, from Old Frankish *g. Jáy is also written ג'י in Hebrew, ჯეი in Georgian and 지와 in Korean (Hangul).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 540(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jáy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #394 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 642 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)
≈840,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jáy in other scripts: Hebrew, Georgian and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jay in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishjay(measured from records)
- Old Frenchjai“jay”(measured from records)
- Late Latingaius“jay”(measured from records)
- Old Frenchgai“gay“gay, merry”(measured from records)
- Old Frankish*gāhi“quick“quick, impetuous”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*ganhuz“sudden”(measured from records)
From Middle English jay, from Old French jai ("jay"; Modern French geai), either from Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or from Old French gai (“gay, merry”), so named due to its plumage, from Old Frankish *gāhi (“quick, impetuous”), from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”), cognate with Dutch gaai (“jay”). More on the latter etymology at gay.
Cited for this meaning 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jáy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈840,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 457 | Jay | 245 |
| PH Philippines | #17 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 540 | — | Jay | 189 |
| US United States | #181 | 164,097 | 1 in 2K | 160K | Jay | 642 |
| GB United Kingdom | #261 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 14 | Jay | 312 |
| CA Canada | #215 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 10 | Jay | 294 |
| AU Australia | #255 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 90 | Jay | 294 |
| SG Singapore | #134 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Jay | 117 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jáy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English jay, from Old French jai ("jay"; Modern French geai), either from Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or from Old French gai (“gay, merry”), so named due to its plumage, from Old Frankish *g… Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Jáy a male or female name?
- Jáy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Jáy?
- Mondonomo estimates about 837 thousand people named Jáy in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jay. After it come Philippines, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jáy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164,097 people named Jáy in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jáy compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jáy is the 17th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jáy” — ranked 9831st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.