Jair
Last seen for girls in 2002 at #13,595 · #1,193 for boys in 2025, 170 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 480 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,258since 1971
Jair over time
Rank among boys' names. Jair has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | — | #1,193 | 170 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,172 | 177 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,047 | 208 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,103 | 194 | |
| 2021 | — | #949 | 238 | |
| 2020 | — | #902 | 249 | |
| 2019 | — | #989 | 214 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,029 | 198 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,090 | 179 | |
| 2016 | — | #942 | 222 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,019 | 199 | |
| 2014 | — | #994 | 208 | |
| 2013 | — | #820 | 264 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,017 | 192 | |
| 2011 | — | #849 | 251 | |
| 2010 | — | #865 | 243 | |
| 2009 | — | #795 | 280 | |
| 2008 | — | #855 | 248 | |
| 2007 | — | #775 | 281 | |
| 2006 | — | #728 | 296 | |
| 2005 | — | #671 | 314 | |
| 2004 | — | #607 | 353 | |
| 2003 | — | #506 | 480 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #626 | 315 |
| 2001 | — | #734 | 237 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,083 | 130 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,215 | 104 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,383 | 84 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,212 | 97 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #884 | 153 |
| 1995 | — | #2,055 | 40 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,868 | 45 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,699 | 51 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,510 | 59 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,725 | 47 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,308 | 30 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,961 | 18 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,116 | 26 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,107 | 14 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jair! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jair is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#292 · 1 in 2,317
- Maryland#509 · 1 in 4,788
- New York#714 · 1 in 7,916
- Florida#718 · 1 in 7,717
- Pennsylvania#758 · 1 in 11,391
Best ever in a state: #240 in District of Columbia, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #292 | 21 | 1 in 2,317 |
| Maryland | #509 | 6 | 1 in 4,788 |
| New York | #714 | 15 | 1 in 7,916 |
| Florida | #718 | 11 | 1 in 7,717 |
| Pennsylvania | #758 | 6 | 1 in 11,391 |
| Texas | #790 | 16 | 1 in 9,741 |
| Georgia | #802 | 6 | 1 in 8,076 |
| California | #828 | 21 | 1 in 12,074 |
| Ohio | #854 | 5 | 1 in 14,064 |
| Illinois | #892 | 7 | 1 in 11,562 |
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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 Jair
- 21 spots since 2024 (#1,172 → #1,193)
- 291 spots since 2020 (#902 → #1,193)
- 174 spots since 2015 (#1,019 → #1,193)
- Biggest jump: 1,171 spots in 1996 (#2,055 → #884)
- Biggest drop: 328 spots in 1997 (#884 → #1,212)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2003 at #506 (480 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2001–2011
- Highest: 1 in 4,115 boys born in 2003 were named Jair (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,048 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.4% of all boys named Jair (2,934) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 54 | #3,836 (1977) | #4,547 |
| 1980s | 154 | #2,116 (1985) | #3,336 |
| 1990s | 710 | #884 (1996) | #1,586 |
| 2000s | 2,934 | #506 (2003) | #738 |
| 2010s | 2,170 | #820 (2013) | #961 |
| 2020s | 1,236 | #902 (2020) | #1,061 |
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.
Jair in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 350,601 of them was named Jair, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,381 of them was named Jair, which outranked 91.6% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).