Jairus
#2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 74 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,741since 1933
Jairus over time
Rank among boys' names. Jairus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,604 | 50 |
| 2024 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,919 | 43 |
| 2021 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 65 |
| 2018 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | #2,170 | 62 |
| 2016 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #1,804 | 83 |
| 2014 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #2,203 | 59 |
| 2010 | #1,924 | 73 |
| 2009 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #1,981 | 71 |
| 2007 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #1,790 | 77 |
| 2005 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | #1,817 | 63 |
| 2001 | #1,659 | 70 |
| 2000 | #1,681 | 68 |
| 1999 | #1,503 | 75 |
| 1998 | #1,475 | 75 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #1,785 | 51 |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 58 |
| 1994 | #1,353 | 74 |
| 1993 | #1,493 | 62 |
| 1992 | #1,546 | 57 |
| 1991 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #1,409 | 63 |
| 1989 | #1,567 | 51 |
| 1988 | #1,645 | 43 |
| 1987 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #1,725 | 36 |
| 1985 | #1,504 | 44 |
| 1984 | #1,606 | 37 |
| 1983 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jairus! It came in at #3,642, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jairus is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#949 · 1 in 6,333
Best ever in a state: #270 in Hawaii, 2008.
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| Indiana | #949 | 5 | 1 in 6,333 |
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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 Jairus
- 1,001 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #2,604)
- 85 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #2,604)
- 800 spots since 2015 (#1,804 → #2,604)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1994 at #1,353 (74 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,093 boys born in 2015 were named Jairus (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,353 in 1994, was only 1 in 26,109 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all boys named Jairus (690) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 5 | #3,642 (1933) | #3,642 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 26 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,501 |
| 1970s | 93 | #2,375 (1978) | #3,077 |
| 1980s | 373 | #1,441 (1982) | #1,740 |
| 1990s | 621 | #1,353 (1994) | #1,553 |
| 2000s | 690 | #1,659 (2001) | #1,843 |
| 2010s | 657 | #1,804 (2015) | #2,114 |
| 2020s | 276 | #2,416 (2023) | #2,804 |
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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