Meaning not yet researched.
Jin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,203 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,203 in 2023; #2,433 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,433 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,203.
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Jin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,203 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 65 (2023).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Jin, making it the 2,433rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 180 places from #2,613 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 51 boys named Jin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,203, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #2,788 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Jin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,115, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jin in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 7 babies. In all, 1,845 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 432 babies named Jin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 438 US boys were named Jin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jin ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,095 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jyion and Jiyon 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jyion (5), Jiyon (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.
No nicknames listed for Jin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,095 | #1,697 |
| New York | 5 | #1,886 | #1,945 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,184 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,433 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,645 | 51 | #2,613 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,203 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,537 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,262 | 51 | #2,565 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,689 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,585 | 33 | #3,455 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,133 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,549 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,563 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,788 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,484 | 36 | #3,126 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,809 | 37 | #3,027 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,824 | 52 | #2,428 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,687 | 25 | #4,044 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,868 | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2009 | — | — | 35 | #3,243 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,521 | 32 | #3,456 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,437 | 43 | #2,779 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,913 | 45 | #2,640 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,753 | 39 | #2,776 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,259 | 36 | #2,866 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,807 | 44 | #2,409 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,124 | 25 | #3,503 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,944 | 25 | #3,456 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,486 | 19 | #4,127 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,478 | 27 | #3,062 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,515 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,470 | 9 | #6,340 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,130 | 24 | #3,068 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,395 | 18 | #3,621 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,115 | 25 | #2,895 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,988 | 31 | #2,427 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,347 | 30 | #2,433 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,389 | 21 | #3,055 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,147 | 12 | #4,537 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,398 | 27 | #2,439 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,734 | 14 | #3,603 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,507 | 19 | #2,772 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,941 | 14 | #3,341 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,877 | 15 | #3,141 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,675 | 12 | #3,567 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,266 | 15 | #2,992 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,122 | 14 | #3,195 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,393 | 14 | #3,128 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,707 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,909 | 9 | #4,222 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,985 | 5 | #6,257 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,260 | 10 | #3,716 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,260 | 7 | #4,653 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,759 | 6 | #5,098 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,225 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,452 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,767 | 8 | #3,795 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,483 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,818 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,511 |
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).