Meaning not yet researched.
Jiraiya: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 231 in 2025. Its best rank was #736 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #736 in 2023; #990 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Jiraiya in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#990 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #736.
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Jiraiya: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 231 boys in 2025. Peak: #736 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 357 (2023).
In 2025, 231 US boys were named Jiraiya, making it the 990th most common boys’ name of the year, down 73 places from #917 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 254 boys named Jiraiya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #736, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 357. For comparison, it was #2,702 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jiraiya in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 9 babies. In all, 2,409 US babies have been given the name, 5.4% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,742 babies named Jiraiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,014 US boys were named Jiraiya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 357. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,394 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jiraiya ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #285 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jiraiyah and Jiraya are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jiraiyah (41), Jiraya (6).
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 Jiraiya 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 7 | #285 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #548 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #578 | — |
| California | 36 | #739 | #1,960 |
| Texas | 34 | #798 | #1,841 |
| Maryland | 5 | #857 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #886 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #954 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #972 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #979 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #979 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,016 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,064 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,106 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,158 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,183 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,205 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,324 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,888 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,212 | 231 | #990 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,699 | 254 | #917 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,783 | 357 | #736 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,387 | 317 | #796 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,052 | 289 | #825 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,547 | 184 | #1,081 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,587 | 127 | #1,397 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,947 | 108 | #1,559 |
| 2017 | — | — | 88 | #1,754 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,178 | 59 | #2,262 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,702 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #3,012 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,202 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,273 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,492 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,098 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,466 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,531 |
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).