Jayan
Jayan was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,884 among boys’ names; 380 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayan?
#3,884 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayan rose from #4,345 in 2015 to #3,884 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 16.4 per million.
33 babies in 2024, the peak
Jayan peaked in 2024, when 33 boys were given it, #3,485 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,884 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,485 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,691 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,476 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,480 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,998 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,665 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,891 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,007 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,633 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,345 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,119 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,059 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,463 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,571 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,586 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,010 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,897 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,769 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,329 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,355 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,557 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,984 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,862 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayan, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Jayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 437 people named Jayan (51 women and girls, 386 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 6,219 babies since 1880, Jayan is the sixth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 135 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
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 Jayan
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 Jayan and names like it
- Compare Jayan and JajuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJayan peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jayan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jayan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.