Jahnya — girls' name
241 babies named Jahnya in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
73% of everyone ever named Jahnya was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Jahnya in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jahnya
The Social Security Administration has registered 241 babies named Jahnya between 1997 and 2021, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jahnya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jahnya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jahnya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jahnya in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jahnya 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 241 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.
Jahnya at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jahnya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1997
- Peak year (2008)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
241 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 24 births in a single year.
Jahnya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 177 births that decade — 73% of Jahnya's all-time total
Jahnya decade highlights
- Peak decade 177 births
- Runner-up 46 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jahnya's strongest decade
177 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 73% of all-time use.
Jahnya by state
Where Jahnya concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
Top 5 states
- New York 9.5% of nationwide
- Florida 5.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 9.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.