Jihad
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,058since 1969
Jihad over time
Rank among boys' names. Jihad 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 | — | #4,539 | 22 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,802 | 29 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,570 | 22 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,032 | 14 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,114 | 25 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,678 | 29 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,122 | 35 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,974 | 39 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,477 | 49 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,701 | 40 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,599 | 41 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,153 | 51 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,772 | 65 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,368 | 93 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,334 | 96 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,489 | 76 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,622 | 64 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,535 | 67 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,421 | 73 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,380 | 73 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,244 | 87 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,358 | 71 |
| 1992 | — | #1,395 | 66 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,430 | 63 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,766 | 43 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,849 | 36 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,829 | 35 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,057 | 28 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,019 | 28 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,232 | 23 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,905 | 28 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,539 | 40 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,086 | 25 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,943 | 27 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,870 | 27 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jihad! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jihad
- 32 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #4,539)
- 159 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #4,539)
- 764 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #4,539)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1994 at #1,244 (87 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,458 boys born in 2000 were named Jihad (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,244 in 1994, was only 1 in 22,207 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.0% of all boys named Jihad (680) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 91 | #1,870 (1978) | #3,468 |
| 1980s | 302 | #1,539 (1982) | #2,011 |
| 1990s | 680 | #1,244 (1994) | #1,478 |
| 2000s | 558 | #1,334 (2000) | #2,308 |
| 2010s | 292 | #3,114 (2011) | #3,706 |
| 2020s | 129 | #3,802 (2023) | #4,702 |
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.
Jihad in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 22,207 of them was named Jihad, which outranked 87.9% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Sami88
- #1,231Tye88
- #1,231Vladimir88
- #1,244Jihad87
- #1,244Brayan87
- #1,244Delvin87
- #1,244Emery87
- #1,254Aiden86
- #1,254Anders86
- #1,254Fermin86
Tied with 9 names at #1,244; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.