Meaning not yet researched.
Jiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,611 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,611 in 2008; #1,615 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,615 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,611.
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Jiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,611 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 141 (2008).
In 2025, 129 US girls were named Jiya, making it the 1,615th most common girls’ name of the year, up 216 places from #1,831 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 110 girls named Jiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,611, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 141. For comparison, it was #2,066 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jiya in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 2,325 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,062 babies named Jiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,055 US girls were named Jiya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jiya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #482 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jia (2,247 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ji, Jiyah and Jiah 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: Ji (414), Jiyah (340), Jiah (267), Jiayi (183), Jie (104), Jiho (93), Jya (91), Jio (90), Jye (79), Jeeya (51), Jyah (27), Jea (16), and more.
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 Jiya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 16 | #482 | #687 |
| New York | 13 | #1,116 | #1,172 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,134 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,165 | #1,870 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,448 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,770 | #2,231 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,851 | #2,469 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,027 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,487 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,789 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,155 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,443 | — | — |
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).