Jaydah
Jaydah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,335 among girls’ names; 1,500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Jaydah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaydah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaydah?
#11,335 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaydah fell from #2,790 in 2015 to #11,335 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 5.0 per million.
101 babies in 2009, the peak
Jaydah peaked in 2009, when 101 girls were given it, #2,039 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,335 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,663 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,776 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,856 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,814 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,598 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,796 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,583 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,273 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,030 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,790 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,246 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,420 | 42.7 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,668 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,034 | 54.6 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,101 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,039 | 55.0 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,212 | 47.6 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,168 | 47.9 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,589 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,171 | 46.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,040 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,590 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,212 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,110 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,921 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,637 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,547 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,613 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,430 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaydah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaydah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaydah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaydah, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,500 Americans ever recorded as Jaydah. The median Jaydah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,047 people named Jaydah (1,038 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,393 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 981 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 496 |
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 Jaydah born?
The states with the most babies named Jaydah are Florida, Texas and California, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 106 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 88 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jaydah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaydah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1996 it was given 1.3 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 Jaydah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jaydah?
Jaydah is a less common spelling of Jayda: SSA has recorded 1,500 Jaydah and 21,291 Jayda since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 114,859 babies since 1880, Jaydah is the seventh most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 626 babies (1.3%), again the seventh 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 Jaydah
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 Jaydah and names like it
- Compare Jaydah and JaydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaydah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaydah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jaydah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaydah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.