Jiraiya
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #988 for boys in 2025, 231 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 357 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,278since 2007
Jiraiya 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 | #988 | 231 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #916 | 254 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #735 | 357 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #796 | 317 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #825 | 289 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,081 | 184 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,394 | 127 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,553 | 108 |
| 2017 | — | #1,746 | 88 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,255 | 59 |
| 2015 | — | #2,684 | 45 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,964 | 25 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,235 | 34 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,035 | 25 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jiraiya! It came in at #8,173, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Jiraiya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#270 · 1 in 929
- Nevada#516 · 1 in 2,259
- Missouri#559 · 1 in 2,781
- California#731 · 1 in 4,874
- Texas#789 · 1 in 5,149
Best ever in a state: #213 in North Dakota, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #270 | 7 | 1 in 929 |
| Nevada | #516 | 5 | 1 in 2,259 |
| Missouri | #559 | 10 | 1 in 2,781 |
| California | #731 | 36 | 1 in 4,874 |
| Texas | #789 | 34 | 1 in 5,149 |
| Maryland | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Arizona | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,454 |
| Georgia | #919 | 9 | 1 in 5,580 |
| Tennessee | #927 | 6 | 1 in 6,128 |
| Illinois | #935 | 8 | 1 in 6,194 |
| Ohio | #940 | 8 | 1 in 6,567 |
| Indiana | #949 | 5 | 1 in 6,333 |
| Washington | #999 | 5 | 1 in 6,560 |
| New Jersey | #1,022 | 5 | 1 in 7,953 |
| Michigan | #1,113 | 5 | 1 in 8,039 |
| Florida | #1,126 | 11 | 1 in 8,685 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 5 | 1 in 10,452 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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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 Jiraiya
- 72 spots since 2024 (#916 → #988)
- 93 spots since 2020 (#1,081 → #988)
- 1,696 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #988)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 2021 (#1,081 → #825)
- Biggest drop: 181 spots in 2024 (#735 → #916)
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2023 at #735 (357 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,792 boys born in 2023 were named Jiraiya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,394 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 71.6% of all boys named Jiraiya (1,632) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 56 | #4,035 (2009) | #5,534 |
| 2010s | 590 | #1,394 (2019) | #2,645 |
| 2020s | 1,632 | #735 (2023) | #890 |
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.
Jiraiya in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 84,593 of them was named Jiraiya, which outranked 64.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #5,917Zury20
- #5,917Zyaire20
- #5,917Zyanya20
- #6,116Jiraiya19
- #6,116Aalia19
- #6,116Aasha19
- #6,116Abrar19
- #6,325Abygail18
- #6,325Adalida18
- #6,325Adamari18
Tied with 208 names at #6,116; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 7,394 of them was named Jiraiya, which outranked 92.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).