Ja
- Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to boys 69.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 305since 1971
Ja over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #9,763 | 7 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
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| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #6,519 | 7 |
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| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #3,963 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1971
The first year at least five boys were named Ja! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ja is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ja in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ja
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 1,708 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1979 at #3,168 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 96,008
- Highest: 1 in 96,008 boys born in 1999 were named Ja (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,168 in 1979, was only 1 in 132,426 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 25.6% of all boys named Ja (78) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 44 | #3,168 (1979) | #4,493 |
| 1980s | 61 | #3,630 (1983) | #5,079 |
| 1990s | 75 | #3,704 (1999) | #6,938 |
| 2000s | 78 | #4,785 (2000) | #7,899 |
| 2010s | 11 | #10,808 (2011) | #11,520 |
| 2020s | 36 | #5,874 (2022) | #8,830 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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