Meaning not yet researched.
Jae: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,815 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,815 in 1957; #2,956 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Jae in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,956 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #1,815.
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Jae: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,815 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 44 (2020).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Jae, making it the 2,956th most common boys’ name of the year, up 881 places from #3,837 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 29 boys named Jae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,815, reached in 1957. The most boys given the name in a single year was 44, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,992 in 2015 and #2,889 in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Jae, making it the 6,414th most common girls’ name of the year, up 87 places from #6,501 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 18 girls named Jae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,859, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 33, in 2006. For comparison, it was #5,733 in 2015 and #3,528 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jae in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,980 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 600 babies named Jae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 358 US boys were named Jae; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jae ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,312 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jay (198,132 babies since 1880), Jai (6,535 babies since 1880), Jaya (3,935 babies since 1880) and Jaye (3,586 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,312 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,729 | #1,697 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,414 | 42 | #2,956 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,501 | 29 | #3,837 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,177 | 43 | #2,916 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,711 | 35 | #3,372 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,015 | 27 | #3,948 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,807 | 44 | #2,776 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,511 | 34 | #3,381 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,921 | 26 | #4,042 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,743 | 36 | #3,213 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,357 | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,733 | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,500 | 36 | #3,117 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,468 | 33 | #3,293 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,310 | 39 | #2,979 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,575 | 32 | #3,391 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,861 | 37 | #3,104 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,973 | 35 | #3,237 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,626 | 36 | #3,185 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,211 | 27 | #3,828 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,396 | 28 | #3,637 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,645 | 32 | #3,195 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,600 | 25 | #3,685 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,150 | 26 | #3,477 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,324 | 31 | #2,970 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,604 | 30 | #3,019 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,581 | 26 | #3,245 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,929 | 17 | #4,223 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,417 | 17 | #4,086 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,938 | 17 | #3,949 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,373 | 17 | #3,900 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,578 | 20 | #3,365 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,328 | 26 | #2,805 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,077 | 27 | #2,659 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,317 | 20 | #3,271 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,059 | 25 | #2,710 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,503 | 17 | #3,514 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,409 | 24 | #2,645 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,714 | 29 | #2,164 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,541 | 22 | #2,504 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,273 | 16 | #3,052 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,193 | 23 | #2,322 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,490 | 16 | #2,871 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,250 | 14 | #3,141 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,326 | 16 | #2,895 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,007 | 13 | #3,299 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,468 | 10 | #3,962 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,368 | 12 | #3,441 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,110 | 18 | #2,518 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,748 | 18 | #2,500 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,349 | 17 | #2,547 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,689 | 13 | #2,978 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,422 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,787 | 12 | #2,923 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,900 | 13 | #2,733 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,187 | 9 | #3,489 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,352 | 11 | #2,971 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,642 | 8 | #3,429 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,432 | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,313 | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,962 | 12 | #2,382 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,628 | 7 | #3,386 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,467 | 11 | #2,595 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,674 | 16 | #2,074 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,881 | 8 | #3,160 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,241 | 12 | #2,470 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,375 | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,512 | 15 | #2,156 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,787 | 20 | #1,815 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,614 | 11 | #2,559 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,285 | 8 | #3,083 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,825 | 11 | #2,524 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,995 | 9 | #2,802 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,859 | 5 | #3,978 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,753 | 7 | #3,206 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,528 | 8 | #2,889 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,370 | 5 | #3,913 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,136 | 5 | #3,990 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,755 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,528 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,540 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,810 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,339 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,796 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,921 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,968 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,214 | 7 | #3,546 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,555 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,667 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,620 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,472 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).