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 [ 1 syll. gay, ga-y ] The girl name Gay is also used, though less frequently, as a boy name. It is pronounced GEY KEY. Gay is of English origin and it is also used mainly in English. Derived literally from the ordinary word gay. It represents the transferred use of the vocabulary word as a given name. See Gay for more info. Forms of the name include the English names Gayla, Gayle, Gaylen, Gaylene, Gaylyn, Gaynell, and Gaynelle. In addition, Gay is a pet form of the English Gail. Gay is also a pet form of the English Gabriel. The spelling variants Gae (English) and Gaye (English) are other forms of Gay. Gay is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1943, 0.034% of baby girls were named Gay. It had a ranking of #316 then. The baby name has fallen out of favor since then, and is of only irregular use today. Within all girl names in its family, Gay was nevertheless the most popular in 2008. Gay has in the last century been mainly given to girls. There were 9 times more girls than boys who were named Gay in 1941. Baby names that sound like Gay include the English Gaye, the English Gae, the Frisian and German Gesche, the Frisian and German Gese, the Portuguese Xuxu, the Latinized Gaea, the Italian and English Gaia, the Russian Gasha, the Russian Gashka, the English Geah, the Frisian and German Gesa, the English and Hebrew Gissa, the English, Hebrew, and Czech Giza, the English Gizelle, the Hungarian Gizi, the Hungarian Gizike, the Hungarian Gizus, the Polish Gosia, the Polish Goska, and the English Gussie. KEY: Pronunciation for Gay: G as in "green (G.R.IY.N)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)"   |
