In 2025, 60 US girls were named Jayne, making it the 2,837th most common girls’ name of the year, down 158 places from #2,679 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 65 girls named Jayne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #212, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,524, in 1957. For comparison, it was #2,303 in 2015 and #318 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jayne in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 29,140 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 9,801 babies named Jayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 703 US girls were named Jayne; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jayne ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,455 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Jan (76,934 babies since 1880) and Jann (2,281 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jayann, Jayonn and Jayanne are summarised on this page.