Jae

Where Jae comes from

The dictionaries list Jae as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,179 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Peak, #1,791
    20 babies named Jae — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jae hasn't yet.

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.