Jair
Jair was given to 170 boys in 2025, #1,193 among boys’ names; 7,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,160 Americans named Jair and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jair by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jair mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jair is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “he will light up” (literally).
From Middle English Jair, Iair, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρ (Iáïr), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Yair and Jairus.
/d͡ʒaɪˈɪəɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jair?
#1,193 among boys’ names, 2025
Jair fell from #1,022 in 2015 to #1,193 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 0.10 per 1,000.
480 babies in 2003, the peak
Jair peaked in 2003, when 480 boys were given it, #506 among boys’ names. The 170 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,193 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 177 | #1,172 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 208 | #1,050 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,105 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 238 | #949 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 249 | #903 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 214 | #990 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 198 | #1,031 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 179 | #1,092 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 222 | #943 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 199 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 208 | #995 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 264 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,019 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 251 | #850 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 243 | #868 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 280 | #796 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 248 | #857 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 281 | #777 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 296 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 314 | #671 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 353 | #609 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 480 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 315 | #628 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 237 | #736 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 130 | #1,082 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,216 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,214 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 153 | #885 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,062 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 59 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 47 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,819 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,011 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,721 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,285 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,627 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jair a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jair has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jair: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jair, and how old are they?
7,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,269 Americans ever recorded as Jair. The median Jair alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,898 people named Jair (62 women and girls, 6,836 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 551 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,700 |
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 Jair born?
The states with the most babies named Jair are Texas, California and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #759 | 1.5× |
| California | 21 | #1,025 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 17 | #862 | 0.8× |
| New York | 14 | #933 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | #830 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,032 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,152 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,360 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 5 | #852 | 0.9× |
Where Jair is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jair is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.6 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 boys’ 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 Jair 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,155 babies since 1880, Jair is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 596 babies (29%), again the second 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 Jair
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 Jair and names like it
- Compare Jair and YahirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJair peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jair since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jair: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jair.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jair alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.