Jaja
Jaja was last recorded in 1992, when 9 babies were given it; 109 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,833, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1972, the peak
Jaja peaked in 1972, when 20 boys were given it, #2,040 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 9 | #5,833 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,666 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,413 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,968 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,140 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,769 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,804 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,748 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,255 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,527 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | #4,358 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,923 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,040 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,488 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaja has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaja, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Jaja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 43 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Jaja (86 women and girls, 178 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 209,721 babies since 1880, Jaja is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,075 babies recorded by SSA was a Jaja (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jaja
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 Jaja and names like it
- Compare Jaja and JayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJaja peaked in 1972.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaja since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Jaja.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jaja alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.