Jayda
Jayda was given to 187 girls in 2025, #1,214 among girls’ names; 21,291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,100 Americans named Jayda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayda is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Fanciful spelling variant of Jada.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayda?
#1,214 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayda fell from #493 in 2015 to #1,214 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.36 to 0.12 per 1,000.
1,397 babies in 2009, the peak
Jayda peaked in 2009, when 1,397 girls were given it, #237 among girls’ names. The 187 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,214 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,130 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 244 | #1,040 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 340 | #823 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 443 | #669 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 463 | #627 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 530 | #576 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 538 | #574 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 524 | #575 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 517 | #590 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 651 | #493 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 728 | #443 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 815 | #381 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 895 | #355 | 0.51 |
| 2011 | 1,029 | #307 | 0.58 |
| 2010 | 1,335 | #235 | 0.75 |
| 2009 | 1,397 | #237 | 0.76 |
| 2008 | 1,344 | #254 | 0.71 |
| 2007 | 1,306 | #262 | 0.68 |
| 2006 | 1,121 | #296 | 0.59 |
| 2005 | 1,045 | #307 | 0.57 |
| 2004 | 967 | #329 | 0.53 |
| 2003 | 826 | #369 | 0.45 |
| 2002 | 754 | #390 | 0.42 |
| 2001 | 712 | #406 | 0.40 |
| 2000 | 646 | #438 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 413 | #595 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 335 | #682 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 256 | #811 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 140 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,989 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,166 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,497 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,651 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,392 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,459 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,720 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,737 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,282 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,941 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,415 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,385 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,067 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,927 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,744 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,471 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,707 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,152 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayda has been given almost only to girls: 24 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jayda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayda, and how old are they?
21,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 21,291 Americans ever recorded as Jayda. The median Jayda alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 16,166 people named Jayda (16,089 women and girls, 77 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 91 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 571 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,160 |
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 Jayda born?
The states with the most babies named Jayda are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,173 | 0.8× |
| California | 15 | #1,528 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,025 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | #914 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,453 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,009 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #962 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #777 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,131 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #779 | 1.0× |
Where Jayda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayda is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1963 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Jayda 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 223,061 babies since 1880, Jayda is the third most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 187 of their 3,349 babies (5.6%), again the third 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 Jayda
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 Jayda and names like it
- Compare Jayda and JadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayda peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayda since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jayda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jayda.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayda alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.