Given name & surname
Hay
“from the stockade”
Hay is a variant of Haye. One Scottish interpretation is “from the stockade.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hay is a variant of Haye. One Scottish interpretation is “from the stockade.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hay is a variant of Haye. An origin associated with Haye is Scottish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 679 as a first name in 2020; 17,186 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hay’s family of names
In Middle English usage, Hay has a later derivative in HAYER. Hay has a related form in Haye.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hay
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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