Japji — #6870 US girls' name
165 babies named Japji in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 61% of names given to girls today.
59% of everyone ever named Japji was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Japji in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Japji
The Social Security Administration has registered 165 babies named Japji between 2012 and 2024, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Japji currently holds the #6870 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Japji performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Japji shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Japji in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Japji 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 165 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.
Japji at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Japji popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2012
- Peak year (2019)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 13 years of records
Currently ranks #6870 among girls.
165 total births across 13 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 21 births in a single year.
Japji by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 98 births that decade — 59% of Japji's all-time total
Japji decade highlights
- Peak decade 98 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Japji's strongest decade
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 59% of all-time use.
Japji by state
Where Japji concentrates geographically — total births since 2012
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 57 | 34.5% |
57 of 165 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 34.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 34.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 2012–2024 (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.