Jaya
Jaya was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,204 among girls’ names; 3,935 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,890 Americans named Jaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaya is “a female given name from Sanskrit.” Its etymology gives the sense “victory” (literally).
Borrowed from Sanskrit जय (jaya, literally “victory”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaya?
#2,204 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaya fell from #1,614 in 2015 to #2,204 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 74.5 to 52.3 per million.
189 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaya peaked in 2007, when 189 babies were given it (183 girls, #1,329 among girls’ names). The 84 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,204 | 52.3 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,374 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,147 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,234 | 51.2 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,276 | 49.4 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,933 | 61.2 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,880 | 63.8 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,856 | 64.1 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,937 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,859 | 62.6 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,614 | 74.5 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,700 | 69.4 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,566 | 78.6 |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,481 | 86.9 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,447 | 88.7 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,452 | 87.8 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,458 | 87.1 |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,382 | 91.5 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,329 | 95.2 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,311 | 94.2 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,456 | 79.0 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,557 | 69.2 |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,299 | 87.6 |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,411 | 75.7 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,324 | 80.5 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,730 | 55.6 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,099 | 41.2 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,089 | 39.6 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,895 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,814 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,307 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,293 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,154 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,746 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,755 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,143 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,298 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,719 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,408 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,557 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,640 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,012 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,761 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,414 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,605 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,208 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,423 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,215 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,646 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,998 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,383 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,470 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,793 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,821 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,416 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,199 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaya has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaya, and how old are they?
3,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,935 Americans ever recorded as Jaya. The median Jaya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 5,196 people named Jaya (4,850 women and girls, 346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 306 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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 Jaya born?
The states with the most babies named Jaya are California, Texas and Florida, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,884 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,503 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,602 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,061 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,925 | 1.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Jaya 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 10,278 babies since 1880, Jaya is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 203 babies (41%), 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 Jaya
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 Jaya and names like it
- Compare Jaya and JayeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.