Jae — #3789 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jae

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,657 babies named Jae between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jae currently holds the #3789 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Jae is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,262 additional births since 1926.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jae performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 353 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jae shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 128 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jae in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jae 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 1,657 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.