Jiraiya
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #988 for boys in 2025, 231 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 357 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,278since 2007
Jiraiya 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 | #6,116 | 19 | #988 | 231 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #916 | 254 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #735 | 357 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #796 | 317 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #825 | 289 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,081 | 184 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,394 | 127 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,553 | 108 |
| 2017 | — | #1,746 | 88 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,255 | 59 |
| 2015 | — | #2,684 | 45 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,964 | 25 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,235 | 34 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,035 | 25 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jiraiya! It came in at #8,173, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jiraiya
- 72 spots since 2024 (#916 → #988)
- 93 spots since 2020 (#1,081 → #988)
- 1,696 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #988)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 2021 (#1,081 → #825)
- Biggest drop: 181 spots in 2024 (#735 → #916)
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2023 at #735 (357 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,792 boys born in 2023 were named Jiraiya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,394 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 71.6% of all boys named Jiraiya (1,632) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 56 | #4,035 (2009) | #5,534 |
| 2010s | 590 | #1,394 (2019) | #2,645 |
| 2020s | 1,632 | #735 (2023) | #890 |
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.
Jiraiya in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 230,602 of them was named Jiraiya, which outranked 43.2% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,590Zuhair10
- #7,590Zymire10
- #7,590Zyrion10
- #8,173Jiraiya9
- #8,173Abdon9
- #8,173Abrahem9
- #8,173Adaiah9
- #8,915Aadam8
- #8,915Aadan8
- #8,915Aaidan8
Tied with 741 names at #8,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.