Jay vs Welsh

Jay

name
  • An English surname transferred from the nickname from Old French jai (“jay (bird)”), a nickname for a chatty or showy person. 

  • A female given name 

  • A male given name from Hindi. 

  • A town in Essex County, New York; named for John Jay. 

  • A town on the Canadian border in Orleans County, Vermont; named for John Jay. 

  • A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England; named in the c. 13th century for the Jay family, prominent in that area (OS grid ref SO3974). 

  • A township in Martin County, Minnesota. 

  • A former settlement in California. 

  • A town in Franklin County, Maine; named for American statesman and Founding Father John Jay. 

  • A township in Elk County, Pennsylvania. 

  • A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Oklahoma; named for Jay Washburn, nephew of Cherokee leader Stand Watie. 

  • A diminutive of the male given names James, Jacob, Jack, John, or Jason, or for any other name beginning with ⟨J⟩; also used as a formal given name. 

  • A town in Santa Rosa County, Florida; named for postmaster J. T. Nowling. 

Welsh

name
  • An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt. 

  • An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh. 

  • A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh. 

  • An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler. 

noun
  • The people of Wales. 

  • The Welsh language. 

  • A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon. 

adj
  • Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. (See Derived terms.) 

  • (Native) British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation. 

  • Of or pertaining to Wales. 

  • Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. 

How often have the words Jay and Welsh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )