Jayana
Jayana was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,307 among girls’ names; 1,237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Jayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayana?
#5,307 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayana fell from #3,675 in 2015 to #5,307 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 14.9 per million.
82 babies in 2008, the peak
Jayana peaked in 2008, when 82 girls were given it, #2,367 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,307 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,818 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,456 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,841 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,191 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,706 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,817 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,496 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,878 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,301 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,675 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,559 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,097 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,528 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,963 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,738 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,657 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,367 | 43.4 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,972 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,436 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,427 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,587 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,727 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,021 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,583 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,796 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,635 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,452 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,715 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,319 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,402 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,033 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,045 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,854 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,577 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayana, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,237 Americans ever recorded as Jayana. The median Jayana alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Jayana (906 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,062 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 471 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 107,211 babies since 1880, Jayana is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 513 babies (4.7%), the seventh 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 Jayana
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 Jayana and names like it
- Compare Jayana and JanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayana peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayana since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.