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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 279,728 of them was named Jiraiya, which outranked 23.4% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,448Zyleah7
- #12,448Zyleigh7
- #12,448Zyrie7
- #13,799Jiraiya6
- #13,799Aabha6
- #13,799Aabriella6
- #13,799Aadrika6
- #15,539Aaditri5
- #15,539Aadiya5
- #15,539Aaila5
Tied with 1,739 names at #13,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 14,128 of them was named Jiraiya, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,386Kanan128
- #1,386Luther128
- #1,386Zen128
- #1,394Jiraiya127
- #1,394Cian127
- #1,394Dovid127
- #1,394Glenn127
- #1,401Deegan126
- #1,401Jasiel126
- #1,401Kenton126
Tied with 6 names at #1,394; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.