Ijah — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ijah

The Social Security Administration has registered 57 babies named Ijah between 1997 and 2013, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ijah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Ijah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ijah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ijah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ijah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 57 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.