Jahaira
Jahaira was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,429 among girls’ names; 1,515 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Jahaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahaira?
#12,429 among girls’ names, 2025
Jahaira fell from #9,737 in 2015 to #12,429 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 4.4 per million.
73 babies in 2003, the peak
Jahaira peaked in 2003, when 73 girls were given it, #2,304 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,429 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,651 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,680 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,288 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,726 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,686 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,308 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,317 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,574 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,396 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,737 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,590 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,566 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,200 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,729 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,017 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,853 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,960 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,070 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,768 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,580 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,783 | 31.6 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,304 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,560 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,977 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,827 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,528 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,664 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,055 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,316 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,734 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,642 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,843 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,882 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,169 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,969 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,579 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,054 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,553 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,932 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,967 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,216 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,807 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,605 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,873 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,353 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,099 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,827 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,842 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,445 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,135 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,449 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahaira, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,515 Americans ever recorded as Jahaira. The median Jahaira alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,773 people named Jahaira (1,767 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 509 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 744 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jahaira born?
The states with the most babies named Jahaira are New York, California and Texas, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 302 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 269 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 64 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jahaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahaira is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jahaira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,251 babies since 1880, Jahaira is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 24 babies (29%), the second 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 Jahaira
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 Jahaira and names like it
- Compare Jahaira and JairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahaira peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahaira since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jahaira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahaira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.