Meaning not yet researched.
Jair: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 2003; #1,193 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jair in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,193 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #506.
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Jair: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 boys in 2025. Peak: #506 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 480 (2003).
In 2025, 170 US boys were named Jair, making it the 1,193rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 21 places from #1,172 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 177 boys named Jair in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #506, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 480. For comparison, it was #1,022 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jair in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 7,269 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,940 babies named Jair.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,049 US boys were named Jair; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 249. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,048 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jair ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #759 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jahir (2,842 babies since 1880) and Jaire (1,277 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaheir, Jayr and Jaaire 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: Jaheir (150), Jayr (123), Jaaire (61), Jahair (58), Jaier (56), Jahier (54), Jaior (52), Jare (38), Jayre (12), Jayair (11), Jayar (11), Jaair (7), and more.
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 Jair 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #759 | #925 |
| Illinois | 10 | #830 | #658 |
| Maryland | 5 | #852 | #606 |
| Florida | 17 | #862 | #790 |
| New York | 14 | #933 | #814 |
| California | 21 | #1,025 | #851 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,032 | #1,044 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,152 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,360 | #936 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 170 | #1,193 |
| 2024 | — | — | 177 | #1,172 |
| 2023 | — | — | 208 | #1,050 |
| 2022 | — | — | 194 | #1,105 |
| 2021 | — | — | 238 | #949 |
| 2020 | — | — | 249 | #903 |
| 2019 | — | — | 214 | #990 |
| 2018 | — | — | 198 | #1,031 |
| 2017 | — | — | 179 | #1,092 |
| 2016 | — | — | 222 | #943 |
| 2015 | — | — | 199 | #1,022 |
| 2014 | — | — | 208 | #995 |
| 2013 | — | — | 264 | #821 |
| 2012 | — | — | 192 | #1,019 |
| 2011 | — | — | 251 | #850 |
| 2010 | — | — | 243 | #868 |
| 2009 | — | — | 280 | #796 |
| 2008 | — | — | 248 | #857 |
| 2007 | — | — | 281 | #777 |
| 2006 | — | — | 296 | #728 |
| 2005 | — | — | 314 | #671 |
| 2004 | — | — | 353 | #609 |
| 2003 | — | — | 480 | #506 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,300 | 315 | #628 |
| 2001 | — | — | 237 | #737 |
| 2000 | — | — | 130 | #1,084 |
| 1999 | — | — | 104 | #1,218 |
| 1998 | — | — | 84 | #1,385 |
| 1997 | — | — | 97 | #1,217 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,382 | 153 | #887 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,067 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,876 |
| 1993 | — | — | 51 | #1,707 |
| 1992 | — | — | 59 | #1,518 |
| 1991 | — | — | 47 | #1,731 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,340 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,825 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,016 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,004 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,724 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,146 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,174 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,988 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,380 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,804 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,286 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,584 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,750 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,972 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,969 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,833 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,359 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,174 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,629 |
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).