Chay (name)

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Chay is a male given name from the United Kingdom , a short form of the first name Charles .

The name is of Celtic origin and means literally: God's gift, life and man image (ger .: God's Gift, Life and Man ). Chay is understood as the belittling of the name Charles. The name became known to a wider audience in the mid-1970s through the Scottish sailor Chay Blyth .