Meaning not yet researched.
Jihad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,248 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,248 in 1994; #4,612 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jihad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,612 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #1,248.
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Jihad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,248 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 96 (2000).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Jihad, making it the 4,612th most common boys’ name of the year, up 18 places from #4,630 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 22 boys named Jihad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,248, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 96, in 2000. For comparison, it was #3,822 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jihad in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 2,063 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 685 babies named Jihad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 228 US boys were named Jihad; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jihaad 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jihaad (74).
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 Jihad in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 22 | #4,612 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,630 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,840 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,618 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,172 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,780 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,172 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,049 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,717 |
| 2016 | — | — | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,822 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,732 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,155 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,201 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,135 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,490 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,783 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,977 |
| 2007 | — | — | 39 | #2,999 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,493 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,733 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,618 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,165 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,777 |
| 2001 | — | — | 93 | #1,375 |
| 2000 | — | — | 96 | #1,337 |
| 1999 | — | — | 76 | #1,497 |
| 1998 | — | — | 64 | #1,632 |
| 1997 | — | — | 67 | #1,544 |
| 1996 | — | — | 73 | #1,430 |
| 1995 | — | — | 73 | #1,385 |
| 1994 | — | — | 87 | #1,248 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,446 | 71 | #1,367 |
| 1992 | — | — | 66 | #1,406 |
| 1991 | — | — | 63 | #1,438 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,918 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,777 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,864 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,846 |
| 1986 | — | — | 28 | #2,075 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,041 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,261 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,926 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,550 |
| 1981 | — | — | 25 | #2,115 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,889 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,969 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,896 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,995 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,651 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,377 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,280 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,158 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,158 |
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).