Girl

Jayne

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,837
60 girls
2015
#2,303
rank
1950
#318
rank

Jayne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #212 in 1956.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #212 in 1956; #2,837 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jayne in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,837 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #212.

Babies in 2025
60
Since 1880
29,140
Years on record
121

Babies named Jayne, every year since 1880

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Girls

Jayne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #212 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 1,524 (1957).

About the name Jayne

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.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Jayann (45), Jayonn (21), Jayanne (5).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Jayne in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Jayne by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New York9#1,455—
California6#2,921#2,393

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202560#2,837——
202465#2,679——
202364#2,7186#11,447
202272#2,499——
202151#3,181——
202067#2,563——
201979#2,296——
201880#2,284——
201775#2,413——
201690#2,159——
201581#2,303——
201485#2,222——
201376#2,392——
201258#2,951——
201176#2,424——
201071#2,571——
200965#2,766——
200874#2,545——
200765#2,804——
200667#2,681——
200564#2,652——
200491#2,023——
200366#2,475——
200265#2,452——
200181#2,068——
200098#1,782——
199991#1,761——
199868#2,134——
199785#1,772——
199697#1,604——
1995100#1,536——
1994120#1,377——
199386#1,732——
199293#1,635——
1991130#1,289——
1990128#1,274——
1989133#1,217——
1988142#1,100——
1987119#1,211——
198693#1,3837#5,598
1985140#1,0565#7,007
1984130#1,0775#6,764
1983126#1,091——
1982137#1,054——
1981149#982——
1980143#1,017——
1979159#926——
1978116#1,123——
1977119#1,091——
1976111#1,095——
1975117#1,029——
1974112#1,058——
1973121#987——
1972141#895——
1971165#835——
1970189#7665#5,054
1969228#658——
1968259#599——
1967349#508——
1966420#462——
1965488#424——
1964611#393——
1963750#346——
1962877#316——
1961981#2955#4,341
1960909#313——
19591,131#260——
19581,326#229——
19571,524#216——
19561,470#212——
19551,179#235——
1954911#282——
1953575#353——
1952539#354——
1951551#337——
1950595#318——
1949621#311——
1948519#341——
1947559#337——
1946490#334——
1945405#338——
1944319#396——
1943321#409——
1942281#432——
1941235#449——
1940207#464——
1939177#503——
1938183#492——
1937134#582——
1936115#616——
1935125#575——
1934110#638——
1933129#564——
1932117#610——
1931114#622——
1930105#671——
192985#760——
1928107#676——
1927118#662——
1926137#607——
1925195#504——
1924188#523——
1923198#496——
1922214#470——
1921256#425——
1920213#466——
1919169#526——
1918156#571——
1917175#499——
1916134#582——
191587#718——
191454#791——
191349#753——
191227#989——
191116#1,140——
19108#1,846——
19098#1,669——
19088#1,608——
19075#2,208——
190610#1,264——
18955#1,708——

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).