Gaye

Where Gaye comes from

Spelling variant of Gay.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gaye
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #2,208 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Gaye Stewart born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  3. 1944
    Gaye Adegbalola born
    American blues singer and guitarist
  4. 1952
    Peak, #586
    219 babies named Gaye — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,087.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
  • A male given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Gaye Stewart · Canadian ice hockey player, 1923–2010
  • Gaye Adegbalola · American blues singer and guitarist, born 1944
  • Gaye Su Akyol · Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist, born 1985
  • Gaye Advert · English punk rock bass guitarist, born 1956
  • Gaye Dell · Australian artist and hurdler, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.