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

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Peak · boys
2014 · 201 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,160
since 1959

Jai over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #2,651, 1998peak #1,014, 2014girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,11619#1,459122
2024#3,96337#1,295151
2023#4,36332#1,205165
2022#3,96337#1,220161
2021#3,80139#1,188165
2020#4,07834#1,189162
2019#3,49944#1,167166
2018#3,55943#1,238149
2017#3,47944#1,321136
2016#3,65642#1,288141
2015#3,47845#1,223150
2014#4,35033#1,014201
2013#4,33633#1,149157
2012#4,38733#1,244142
2011#4,35333#1,167153
2010#4,30634#1,175154
2009#3,51246#1,099168
2008#3,77942#1,240140
2007#4,67531#1,215145
2006#3,56444#1,124154
2005#3,94236#1,128145
2004#4,28732#1,039157
2003#4,22031#1,103139
2002#2,97649#1,160122
2001#3,94032#1,151120
2000#3,66435#1,32397
1999#3,63933#1,45779
1998#2,65151#1,43679
1997#4,00727#1,89049
1996#4,30624#1,76452
1995#3,02238#1,55960
1994#3,89227#2,12338
1993#8,05210#2,50929
1992#10,4797#2,12836
1991#5,94915#2,22732
1990#10,1937#2,17033
1989#6,16013#2,69023
1988#10,3866#2,36725
1987#2,33324
1986#6,61210#2,09627
1985#6,9559#1,86631
1984#4,47816#2,61318
1983#7,3128#1,49041
1982#7,4698#1,99927
1981#6,8049#1,54839
1980#7,4188#1,18759
1979#5,75111#1,43542
1978#7,6497#1,41043
1977#6,8928#1,28948
1976#1,30446
1975#5,16111#1,36141
1974#6,2588#1,43936
1973#7,4356#1,37637
1972#1,64828
1971#1,74526
1970#2,39915
1969#1,28038
1968#4,00012#1,47828
1967#4,6259#1,44928
1966#2,62710
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1962#5,2937#3,0418
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1959#3,2907
1958#6,1035
1957#6,0865
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First appearance
1959

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
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 164 spots since 2024 (#1,295#1,459)
  • 270 spots since 2020 (#1,189#1,459)
  • 236 spots since 2015 (#1,223#1,459)
Rise & fade · boys
55 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,014 (201 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,557
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 30.0% of all boys named Jai (1,549) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1959
  • Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s7#3,290 (1959)#3,290
1960s128#1,280 (1969)#2,285
1970s362#1,289 (1977)#1,541
1980s314#1,187 (1980)#2,019
1990s487#1,436 (1998)#1,926
2000s1,387#1,039 (2004)#1,158
2010s1,549#1,014 (2014)#1,199
2020s926#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 2016

girls
#3,656
42 births · 1 in 42,191 girls
boys
#1,288
141 births · 1 in 13,459 boys

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #3,656Jai42

Top boys' names in 2016

  1. #1Noah19,188
  2. #2Liam18,277
  3. #3William15,810
  4. #4Mason15,287
  5. #5James14,920
  6. #6Benjamin14,686
  7. #7Jacob14,559
  8. #8Michael14,145
  9. #9Elijah13,982
  10. #10Ethan13,855
  11. #1,288Jai141
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 42,191 of them was named Jai, which outranked 80.6% 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).

Ranked beside Jai
  1. #3,588Sonora43
  2. #3,588Tzipora43
  3. #3,588Verna43
  4. #3,656Jai42
  5. #3,656Adore42
  6. #3,656Aiden42
  7. #3,656Aira42
  8. #3,707Aanvi41
  9. #3,707Addaline41
  10. #3,707Aliannah41

Tied with 50 names at #3,656; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 13,459 of them was named Jai, which outranked 90.9% 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).

Ranked beside Jai
  1. #1,279Rome142
  2. #1,279Salman142
  3. #1,279Zakai142
  4. #1,288Jai141
  5. #1,288Avraham141
  6. #1,288Coy141
  7. #1,288Gian141
  8. #1,295Ash140
  9. #1,295Carver140
  10. #1,295Corbyn140

Tied with 6 names at #1,288; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,327Kylo#3,231#904
  2. 355Creed#1,340#985
  3. 349Benicio#1,327#978
  4. 303Adonis#698#395
  5. 291Fox#1,035#744
Fallers
  1. 477Jonael#922#1,399
  2. 238Aaden#784#1,022
  3. 233Triston#950#1,183
  4. 223Freddy#993#1,216
  5. 207Chace#934#1,141

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016