Jaya
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births · Last seen for boys in 2016 at #12,185
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,907since 1969
Jaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaya 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 | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,194 | 84 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,875 | 107 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,857 | 111 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,692 | 124 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,565 | 138 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,477 | 153 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #1,450 | 156 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,450 | 160 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,381 | 173 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,326 | 183 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #1,307 | 179 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,451 | 146 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,297 | 160 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,411 | 136 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,322 | 145 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,730 | 101 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,083 | 70 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaya! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jaya is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,808
- Illinois#915 · 1 in 5,239
- Ohio#1,151 · 1 in 7,438
- New York#1,573 · 1 in 11,230
- Florida#1,630 · 1 in 12,387
Best ever in a state: #420 in New Mexico, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Illinois | #915 | 11 | 1 in 5,239 |
| Ohio | #1,151 | 7 | 1 in 7,438 |
| New York | #1,573 | 8 | 1 in 11,230 |
| Florida | #1,630 | 7 | 1 in 12,387 |
| Texas | #2,032 | 10 | 1 in 16,729 |
| California | #2,306 | 9 | 1 in 22,635 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Jaya
- 168 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,194)
- 270 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #2,194)
- 585 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #2,194)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2003 at #1,297 (160 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,506 girls born in 2007 were named Jaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,297 in 2003, was only 1 in 11,420 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.6% of all girls named Jaya (1,510) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 68 | #4,905 (1976) | #7,052 |
| 1980s | 139 | #4,148 (1980) | #5,351 |
| 1990s | 378 | #2,083 (1998) | #3,494 |
| 2000s | 1,510 | #1,297 (2003) | #1,423 |
| 2010s | 1,291 | #1,446 (2011) | #1,675 |
| 2020s | 514 | #1,924 (2020) | #2,186 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jaya in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 15,964 of them was named Jaya, which outranked 90.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,841Shyla112
- #1,841Tayla112
- #1,841Tiara112
- #1,857Jaya111
- #1,857Dora111
- #1,857Ester111
- #1,857Justyce111
- #1,865Abbygail110
- #1,865Anaiah110
- #1,865Elliette110
Tied with 7 names at #1,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 379,548 of them was named Jaya, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,022 names at #12,185; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.