Jai

Where Jai comes from

The dictionaries list Jai as a given name — a male given name from Sanskrit used in India — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Sanskrit
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #3,290 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2014
    Peak, #1,014
    201 babies named Jai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jai hasn't yet.

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.