Girl
Gay
Gay is a girl's name meaning "joyful, merry". It has not appeared in recent U.S. birth records, last common back in the 1950s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. The name's best year yet was 1959.
Old FrenchOld French "gai"
EtymologyMeaning "joyful, merry"
Births by decade
1900s
199
1910s
647
1920s
1,003
1930s
2,887
1940s
4,605
1950s
5,858
1960s
3,483
1970s
412
1980s
6
1990s
0
2000s
0
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1950s · 19,100 total U.S. births since 1900