Jairo
Jairo was given to 251 boys in 2025, #935 among boys’ names; 11,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,200 Americans named Jairo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jairo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jairo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Jairo is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “God enlightens” (means).
Spanish variant of the male Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (ya’ir) (via Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρος (Iáïros) and Latin Iairus), which means “God enlightens”. In the Bible, Jairus was the father of a young girl resurrected by Jesus.
/ˈxaiɾo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jairo?
#935 among boys’ names, 2025
Jairo fell from #885 in 2015 to #935 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.15 per 1,000.
473 babies in 2008, the peak
Jairo peaked in 2008, when 473 boys were given it, #556 among boys’ names. The 251 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 251 | #935 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 247 | #933 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 252 | #917 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 260 | #897 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,039 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 209 | #1,008 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 247 | #888 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 223 | #940 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 243 | #886 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 235 | #918 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #885 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 255 | #867 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 285 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 298 | #767 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 304 | #746 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 336 | #694 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 383 | #648 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 473 | #556 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 441 | #581 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 446 | #561 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 425 | #559 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 350 | #614 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 364 | #593 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 316 | #623 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 307 | #618 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 272 | #661 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 225 | #727 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 220 | #738 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 223 | #708 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 231 | #696 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 243 | #676 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 242 | #668 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 214 | #707 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 209 | #710 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 224 | #674 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 224 | #675 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 154 | #798 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 143 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 129 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 163 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 211 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 45 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,926 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jairo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jairo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jairo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jairo, and how old are they?
11,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,483 Americans ever recorded as Jairo. The median Jairo alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 18,460 people named Jairo (48 women and girls, 18,412 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 217 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,140 |
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 Jairo born?
The states with the most babies named Jairo are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 45 | #662 | 1.7× |
| California | 37 | #723 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 18 | #825 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 10 | #879 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 10 | #702 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 9 | #693 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #968 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 7 | #841 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 7 | #655 | 0.6× |
| Kansas | 7 | #490 | 0.6× |
Where Jairo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jairo is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 2.4 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 Jairo 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 13,760 babies since 1880, Jairo is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 251 of their 397 babies (63%), again the 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 Jairo
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 Jairo and names like it
- Compare Jairo and JaireBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJairo peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jairo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jairo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jairo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jairo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.