Tray

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Tray by the numbers

Tray was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 83 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Tray

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tray. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Troycurly-haired; or from the city troy955 in the US (2017)
  • Treythree; third-born son479 in the US (2017)
  • Trae47 in the US (2017)
  • Tran5 in the US (2017)
  • Tyray5 in the US (2017)
  • Trai3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Tray

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