Meaning not yet researched.
Jai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,016 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,016 in 2014; #1,460 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Jai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,460 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,016.
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Jai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,016 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 201 (2014).
In 2025, 122 US boys were named Jai, making it the 1,460th most common boys’ name of the year, down 162 places from #1,298 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 151 boys named Jai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,016, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #1,226 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Jai, making it the 6,205th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,207 places from #3,998 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 37 girls named Jai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,668, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #3,503 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jai in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 6,535 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,933 babies named Jai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,518 US boys were named Jai; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jai ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #833 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), Jaison (1,785 babies since 1880), Jaya (3,935 babies since 1880) and Jaye (3,586 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaiah, Jahia and Jaimz are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaiah (185), Jahia (22), Jaimz (11), Jahai (11).
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 Jai 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #833 | #765 |
| California | 24 | #945 | #942 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #955 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,096 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,198 | #1,200 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,224 | #929 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,598 | #1,017 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,205 | 122 | #1,460 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,998 | 151 | #1,298 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,403 | 165 | #1,209 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,997 | 161 | #1,222 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,835 | 165 | #1,191 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,108 | 162 | #1,190 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,526 | 166 | #1,170 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,582 | 149 | #1,242 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,506 | 136 | #1,327 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,672 | 141 | #1,292 |
| 2015 | 45 | #3,503 | 150 | #1,226 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,391 | 201 | #1,016 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,371 | 157 | #1,153 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,425 | 142 | #1,246 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,399 | 153 | #1,167 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,338 | 154 | #1,176 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,533 | 168 | #1,100 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,805 | 140 | #1,244 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,735 | 145 | #1,219 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,583 | 154 | #1,126 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,982 | 145 | #1,130 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,320 | 157 | #1,040 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,250 | 139 | #1,105 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,988 | 122 | #1,162 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,975 | 120 | #1,152 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,688 | 97 | #1,325 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,658 | 79 | #1,464 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,668 | 79 | #1,438 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,054 | 49 | #1,901 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,362 | 52 | #1,770 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,044 | 60 | #1,568 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,934 | 38 | #2,144 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,287 | 29 | #2,538 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,913 | 36 | #2,144 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,060 | 32 | #2,264 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,629 | 33 | #2,190 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,297 | 23 | #2,727 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,871 | 25 | #2,399 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,360 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,786 | 27 | #2,123 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,178 | 31 | #1,888 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,569 | 18 | #2,647 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,558 | 41 | #1,498 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,734 | 27 | #2,024 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,008 | 39 | #1,561 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,662 | 59 | #1,193 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,888 | 42 | #1,446 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,943 | 43 | #1,419 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,127 | 48 | #1,296 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,307 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,276 | 41 | #1,366 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,464 | 36 | #1,455 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,788 | 37 | #1,388 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,663 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,755 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,440 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,287 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,083 | 28 | #1,489 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,749 | 28 | #1,462 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,171 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,509 | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,201 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,418 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,464 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,470 | — | — |
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).