Meaning not yet researched.
Jaye: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #734 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #734 in 1956; #8,072 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Jaye in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,072 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #734.
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Jaye: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #734 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 173 (1956).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Jaye, making it the 8,072nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,133 places from #9,205 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 11 girls named Jaye in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #734, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 173. For comparison, it was #8,186 in 2015 and #1,775 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Jaye, making it the 6,977th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4,563 places from #11,540 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 6 boys named Jaye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,393, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #5,853 in 2015 and #2,376 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaye in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 3,586 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 947 babies named Jaye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 131 US girls were named Jaye; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Jae (2,980 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 Jaye in the open dataset we use.
Jaye is listed as a nickname for Jalen.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,072 | 12 | #6,977 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,205 | 6 | #11,540 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,905 | 7 | #10,171 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,431 | 5 | #13,177 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,420 | 13 | #6,486 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,356 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,854 | 17 | #5,431 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,431 | 9 | #8,452 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,232 | 8 | #9,223 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,705 | 9 | #8,434 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,186 | 15 | #5,853 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,687 | 10 | #7,813 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,858 | 8 | #9,163 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,341 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,852 | 10 | #7,751 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,760 | 15 | #5,861 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,843 | 5 | #13,316 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,739 | 9 | #8,608 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,804 | 10 | #7,850 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,031 | 12 | #6,650 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,079 | 6 | #10,679 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,239 | 14 | #5,617 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,168 | 6 | #10,131 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,598 | 5 | #11,470 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,684 | 10 | #6,675 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,956 | 12 | #5,728 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,314 | 11 | #5,814 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,457 | 10 | #6,032 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,304 | 6 | #8,630 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,382 | 10 | #5,745 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,534 | 8 | #6,646 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,740 | 10 | #5,642 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,303 | 17 | #3,731 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,728 | 11 | #5,038 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,771 | 22 | #2,949 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,659 | 17 | #3,519 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,565 | 14 | #3,899 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,555 | 20 | #2,799 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,363 | 12 | #3,841 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,911 | 10 | #4,280 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,644 | 13 | #3,499 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,908 | 15 | #3,024 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,278 | 12 | #3,510 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,938 | 12 | #3,574 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,215 | 11 | #3,722 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,598 | 15 | #3,014 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,753 | 9 | #4,212 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,229 | 16 | #2,724 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,959 | 14 | #2,973 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,225 | 20 | #2,284 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,906 | 12 | #3,140 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,245 | 7 | #4,372 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,529 | 18 | #2,265 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,997 | 11 | #3,053 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,828 | 17 | #2,320 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,249 | 11 | #2,974 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,542 | 19 | #1,938 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,181 | 19 | #1,867 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,096 | 16 | #1,996 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,074 | 19 | #1,785 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,814 | 19 | #1,832 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,736 | 21 | #1,764 |
| 1963 | 64 | #1,397 | 16 | #2,075 |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,270 | 19 | #1,876 |
| 1961 | 74 | #1,292 | 23 | #1,715 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,140 | 18 | #1,943 |
| 1959 | 83 | #1,170 | 32 | #1,393 |
| 1958 | 90 | #1,115 | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1957 | 132 | #891 | 18 | #1,920 |
| 1956 | 173 | #734 | 17 | #1,977 |
| 1955 | 116 | #913 | 13 | #2,256 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,115 | 26 | #1,513 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,046 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,695 | 9 | #2,775 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,149 | 8 | #2,943 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,775 | 11 | #2,376 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,238 | 8 | #2,894 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,610 | 6 | #3,478 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,801 | 8 | #2,986 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,116 | 8 | #2,798 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,850 | 6 | #3,153 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,861 | 5 | #3,778 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,076 | 7 | #3,074 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,751 | 5 | #3,756 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,656 | — | — |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,722 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,651 | 7 | #3,016 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,622 | 9 | #2,579 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,029 | 6 | #3,477 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,904 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,713 | 7 | #3,222 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,580 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,688 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,305 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,623 |
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).