Jai
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,459 for boys in 2025, 122 births
Given to boys 79.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 201 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,160since 1959
Jai 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 | #1,459 | 122 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,295 | 151 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #1,205 | 165 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,220 | 161 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #1,188 | 165 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #1,189 | 162 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #1,167 | 166 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #1,238 | 149 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | #1,288 | 141 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 | #1,223 | 150 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #1,014 | 201 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #1,149 | 157 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #1,244 | 142 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #1,167 | 153 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #1,175 | 154 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 | #1,099 | 168 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 | #1,240 | 140 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #1,215 | 145 |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 | #1,124 | 154 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #1,128 | 145 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #1,039 | 157 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | #1,160 | 122 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #1,151 | 120 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | #1,323 | 97 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | #1,457 | 79 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | #1,890 | 49 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | #1,559 | 60 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #2,170 | 33 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,490 | 41 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,410 | 43 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | — | #1,304 | 46 | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #1,361 | 41 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #1,439 | 36 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #1,376 | 37 |
| 1972 | — | #1,648 | 28 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,745 | 26 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,280 | 38 | |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | #1,478 | 28 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #1,449 | 28 |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #3,041 | 8 |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jai! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jai
- 164 spots since 2024 (#1,295 → #1,459)
- 270 spots since 2020 (#1,189 → #1,459)
- 236 spots since 2015 (#1,223 → #1,459)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2014 at #1,014 (201 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,557 boys born in 2014 were named Jai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,001 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.0% of all boys named Jai (1,549) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 128 | #1,280 (1969) | #2,285 |
| 1970s | 362 | #1,289 (1977) | #1,541 |
| 1980s | 314 | #1,187 (1980) | #2,019 |
| 1990s | 487 | #1,436 (1998) | #1,926 |
| 2000s | 1,387 | #1,039 (2004) | #1,158 |
| 2010s | 1,549 | #1,014 (2014) | #1,199 |
| 2020s | 926 | #1,188 (2021) | #1,259 |
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.
Jai in 1959
Top boys' names in 1959
More about 1959
boys
2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 304,931 of them was named Jai, which outranked 28.0% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,037Yaakov8
- #3,037Yogi8
- #3,037Zach8
- #3,290Jai7
- #3,290Achille7
- #3,290Aharon7
- #3,290Alessandro7
- #3,619Addie6
- #3,619Agustine6
- #3,619Alban6
Tied with 328 names at #3,290; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.