Jaye
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 68.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1956 · 173 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,468since 1927
Jaye 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #4,522 | 20 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,515 | 27 | #1,914 | 19 |
| 1968 | #2,164 | 31 | #1,836 | 19 |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 | #1,974 | 16 |
| 1966 | #2,058 | 32 | #1,757 | 19 |
| 1965 | #1,801 | 40 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1964 | #1,731 | 45 | #1,729 | 21 |
| 1963 | #1,392 | 64 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #1,266 | 76 | #1,852 | 19 |
| 1961 | #1,288 | 74 | #1,686 | 23 |
| 1960 | #1,138 | 91 | #1,910 | 18 |
| 1959 | #1,165 | 83 | #1,387 | 32 |
| 1958 | #1,112 | 90 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1957 | #887 | 132 | #1,887 | 18 |
| 1956 | #733 | 173 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1955 | #913 | 116 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,108 | 79 | #1,496 | 26 |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | #1,680 | 34 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,116 | 22 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #1,764 | 29 | #2,321 | 11 |
| 1949 | #2,212 | 20 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #1,598 | 34 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #1,790 | 29 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | #2,094 | 20 | #2,690 | 8 |
| 1945 | #1,825 | 21 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 | #3,538 | 5 |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | #3,505 | 5 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | #2,868 | 7 |
| 1937 | #2,570 | 11 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaye! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1933, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jaye
- 1,061 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #7,885)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 195 spots in 1955 (#1,108 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 225 spots in 1958 (#887 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1956 at #733 (173 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1955–1957
- Highest: 1 in 11,605 girls born in 1956 were named Jaye (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.8% of all girls named Jaye (784) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,428 |
| 1930s | 37 | #2,570 (1937) | #3,512 |
| 1940s | 195 | #1,598 (1948) | #2,256 |
| 1950s | 784 | #733 (1956) | #1,350 |
| 1960s | 512 | #1,138 (1960) | #1,743 |
| 1970s | 231 | #2,506 (1973) | #3,157 |
| 1980s | 179 | #3,242 (1983) | #4,521 |
| 1990s | 162 | #4,687 (1994) | #6,072 |
| 2000s | 137 | #6,055 (2003) | #8,200 |
| 2010s | 156 | #5,622 (2016) | #7,615 |
| 2020s | 64 | #7,250 (2021) | #8,196 |
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.
Jaye in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
Top boys' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 11,605 of them was named Jaye, which outranked 89.4% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,115,302 boys got a published name in 1956; 1 in 124,430 of them was named Jaye, which outranked 56.3% of the 4,455 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,886Vincente18
- #1,886Waylon18
- #1,886West18
- #1,945Jaye17
- #1,945Agapito17
- #1,945Alferd17
- #1,945Ardis17
- #2,015Acie16
- #2,015Alexandro16
- #2,015Allie16
Tied with 69 names at #1,945; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.