Jaiah
Jaiah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,871 among girls’ names; 185 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaiah?
#15,871 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaiah fell from #12,281 in 2015 to #15,871 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
15 babies in 2013, the peak
Jaiah peaked in 2013, when 15 girls were given it, #7,922 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,871 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,266 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,245 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,724 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,689 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,031 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,254 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,469 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,281 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,667 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 15 | #7,922 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,673 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,559 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,042 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,069 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,211 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,157 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,563 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,047 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,740 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,330 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 184 Americans named Jaiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 177 people named Jaiah (146 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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 Jaiah?
Jaiah is a less common spelling of Jaya: SSA has recorded 185 Jaiah and 3,935 Jaya since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,692 babies since 1880, Jaiah is the sixth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 178 babies (2.8%), again the sixth most given.
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 Jaiah
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 Jaiah and names like it
- Compare Jaiah and JayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaiah peaked in 2013.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jaiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.