Tray is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Tray in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Tray in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Tray by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Tray ranks at #6,043. That means there are 6,042 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tray.
In fact, the name Tray hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Tray wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1993, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,150, 83 parents chose it in 1993 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Tray, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tray was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Tray a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 7,630, for a total of 8 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Tray seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of having a man or boy named Tray in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Tray is registered in 13 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Tray live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 84,623 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Tray.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Tray is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tray and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tray, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tray sounds like this: