Jahayra
Jahayra was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 256 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahayra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,577, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 2007, the peak
Jahayra peaked in 2007, when 24 girls were given it, #5,777 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #15,577 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,271 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,282 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,777 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,913 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,949 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,205 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,348 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,504 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,744 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 13 | #7,744 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,805 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,845 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,402 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,357 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,999 | 3.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,813 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,152 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,864 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,590 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,011 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,561 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,110 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahayra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahayra, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Jahayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 274 people named Jahayra (273 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 253 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jahayra?
Jahayra is a less common spelling of Jahaira: SSA has recorded 256 Jahayra and 1,515 Jahaira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,850 babies since 1880, Jahayra is the fourth most given (9.0% of them).
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 Jahayra
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 Jahayra and names like it
- Compare Jahayra and JahairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahayra peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahayra since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jahayra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahayra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.