Meaning not yet researched.
Jaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,300 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,300 in 2003; #2,204 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,204 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,300.
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Jaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,300 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 183 (2007).
In 2025, 84 US girls were named Jaya, making it the 2,204th most common girls’ name of the year, up 170 places from #2,374 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 77 girls named Jaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,300, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 183, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,614 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaya in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 7 babies. In all, 3,935 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,522 babies named Jaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 945 US girls were named Jaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,134 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaya ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,061 for girls 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), Jaye (3,586 babies since 1880) and Jae (2,980 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaiyah, Jahiya and Jayiah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Indonesian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaiyah (275), Jahiya (36), Jayiah (13).
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 Jaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 8 | #1,061 | #1,101 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,602 | #1,405 |
| California | 11 | #1,884 | #2,847 |
| New York | 6 | #1,925 | #1,243 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,503 | #2,711 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,859 | 5 | #13,071 |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,447 | 6 | #11,457 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,329 | 6 | #11,549 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,558 | 6 | #10,562 |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,298 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,148 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,304 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,413 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,560 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,643 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,425 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,217 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,000 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,385 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,471 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,795 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,823 | 5 | #5,256 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,417 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,201 | — | — |
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).