Jah
Jah was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,339 among boys’ names; 465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jah?
#3,339 among boys’ names, 2025
Jah rose from #8,303 in 2015 to #3,339 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 20.5 per million.
41 babies in 2022, the peak
Jah peaked in 2022, when 41 boys were given it, #3,028 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,339 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,483 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,079 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,028 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,146 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,046 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,938 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,140 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,153 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,491 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,303 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,828 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,078 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,348 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,182 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,838 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,318 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,324 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,757 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,195 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,514 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,782 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,367 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,522 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,803 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,507 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,437 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,588 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,123 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,953 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jah, and how old are they?
An estimated 460 Americans named Jah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 449 people named Jah (88 women and girls, 361 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jah rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 209,571 babies since 1880, Jah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,067 babies (3.3%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jah and names like it
- Compare Jah and JayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJah peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Jah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.