Jaye

Where Jaye comes from

The dictionaries list Jaye as a given name — a unisex 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. 1927
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Jaye P. Morgan born
    American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist
  3. 1956
    Peak, #733
    173 babies named Jaye — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,165.
  5. 1968
    Jaye Davidson born
    British-American actor
  6. 2021
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes
  • Jaye Davidson · British-American actor, born 1968
  • Jaye P. Morgan · American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist, 1931–2026
  • Jaye Griffiths · British actress, born 1963
  • Jaye Radisich · Australian politician, 1976–2012

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.