Jai
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,459 for boys in 2025, 122 births
Given to boys 79.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 201 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,160since 1959
Jai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #1,459 | 122 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,295 | 151 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #1,205 | 165 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,220 | 161 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #1,188 | 165 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #1,189 | 162 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #1,167 | 166 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #1,238 | 149 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | #1,288 | 141 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 | #1,223 | 150 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #1,014 | 201 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #1,149 | 157 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #1,244 | 142 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #1,167 | 153 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #1,175 | 154 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 | #1,099 | 168 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 | #1,240 | 140 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #1,215 | 145 |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 | #1,124 | 154 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #1,128 | 145 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #1,039 | 157 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | #1,160 | 122 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #1,151 | 120 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | #1,323 | 97 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | #1,457 | 79 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | #1,890 | 49 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | #1,559 | 60 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #2,170 | 33 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,490 | 41 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,410 | 43 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | — | #1,304 | 46 | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #1,361 | 41 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #1,439 | 36 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #1,376 | 37 |
| 1972 | — | #1,648 | 28 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,745 | 26 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,280 | 38 | |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | #1,478 | 28 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #1,449 | 28 |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #3,041 | 8 |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jai! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jai is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#519 · 1 in 5,919
- New Jersey#581 · 1 in 5,308
- Maryland#646 · 1 in 5,658
- Louisiana#708 · 1 in 5,148
- North Carolina#744 · 1 in 7,180
Best ever in a state: #266 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #519 | 6 | 1 in 5,919 |
| New Jersey | #581 | 9 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Maryland | #646 | 5 | 1 in 5,658 |
| Louisiana | #708 | 5 | 1 in 5,148 |
| North Carolina | #744 | 7 | 1 in 7,180 |
| New York | #873 | 12 | 1 in 9,181 |
| California | #922 | 19 | 1 in 12,898 |
| Florida | #932 | 9 | 1 in 9,997 |
| Georgia | #954 | 6 | 1 in 9,301 |
| Texas | #1,335 | 9 | 1 in 19,395 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jai
- 164 spots since 2024 (#1,295 → #1,459)
- 270 spots since 2020 (#1,189 → #1,459)
- 236 spots since 2015 (#1,223 → #1,459)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2014 at #1,014 (201 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,557 boys born in 2014 were named Jai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,001 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.0% of all boys named Jai (1,549) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 128 | #1,280 (1969) | #2,285 |
| 1970s | 362 | #1,289 (1977) | #1,541 |
| 1980s | 314 | #1,187 (1980) | #2,019 |
| 1990s | 487 | #1,436 (1998) | #1,926 |
| 2000s | 1,387 | #1,039 (2004) | #1,158 |
| 2010s | 1,549 | #1,014 (2014) | #1,199 |
| 2020s | 926 | #1,188 (2021) | #1,259 |
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.
Jai in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 36,671 of them was named Jai, which outranked 83.5% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,935Tanasia50
- #2,935Vianna50
- #2,935Yuri50
- #2,976Jai49
- #2,976Allee49
- #2,976Blakely49
- #2,976Calie49
- #3,014Aaliah48
- #3,014Alandra48
- #3,014Amberlyn48
Tied with 37 names at #2,976; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 15,914 of them was named Jai, which outranked 90.7% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,154Edison123
- #1,154Jajuan123
- #1,154Varun123
- #1,160Jai122
- #1,160Aric122
- #1,160Federico122
- #1,160Karim122
- #1,168Brandan121
- #1,168Damarion121
- #1,168Davian121
Tied with 7 names at #1,160; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.