Jaya
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births · Last seen for boys in 2016 at #12,185
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,907since 1969
Jaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,194 | 84 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,875 | 107 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,857 | 111 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,692 | 124 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,565 | 138 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,477 | 153 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #1,450 | 156 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,450 | 160 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,381 | 173 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,326 | 183 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #1,307 | 179 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,451 | 146 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,297 | 160 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,411 | 136 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,322 | 145 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,730 | 101 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,083 | 70 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaya! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jaya is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#571 · 1 in 2,706
- Missouri#732 · 1 in 4,205
- Michigan#832 · 1 in 4,940
- Washington#838 · 1 in 4,592
- New York#842 · 1 in 5,028
Best ever in a state: #420 in New Mexico, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #571 | 5 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Missouri | #732 | 7 | 1 in 4,205 |
| Michigan | #832 | 9 | 1 in 4,940 |
| Washington | #838 | 7 | 1 in 4,592 |
| New York | #842 | 19 | 1 in 5,028 |
| Wisconsin | #859 | 5 | 1 in 5,010 |
| Colorado | #901 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Tennessee | #919 | 6 | 1 in 5,365 |
| Ohio | #942 | 9 | 1 in 6,265 |
| Illinois | #1,130 | 9 | 1 in 7,358 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 9,224 |
| North Carolina | #1,425 | 5 | 1 in 9,616 |
| California | #1,500 | 19 | 1 in 12,071 |
| Texas | #1,769 | 12 | 1 in 13,976 |
| Florida | #2,056 | 5 | 1 in 17,216 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Jaya
- 168 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,194)
- 270 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #2,194)
- 585 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #2,194)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2003 at #1,297 (160 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,506 girls born in 2007 were named Jaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,297 in 2003, was only 1 in 11,420 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.6% of all girls named Jaya (1,510) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 68 | #4,905 (1976) | #7,052 |
| 1980s | 139 | #4,148 (1980) | #5,351 |
| 1990s | 378 | #2,083 (1998) | #3,494 |
| 2000s | 1,510 | #1,297 (2003) | #1,423 |
| 2010s | 1,291 | #1,446 (2011) | #1,675 |
| 2020s | 514 | #1,924 (2020) | #2,186 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jaya in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,930 of them was named Jaya, which outranked 93.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,374Rosalinda175
- #1,374Sawyer175
- #1,380Amerie174
- #1,381Jaya173
- #1,381Audrianna173
- #1,381Kensley173
- #1,381Leena173
- #1,386Ellison172
- #1,386Lilyann172
- #1,386Xochitl172
Tied with 4 names at #1,381; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.