Jaye — #9006 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jaye

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,455 babies named Jaye between 1927 and 2024, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jaye currently holds the #9006 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 173 babies received it in a single year. Jaye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,106 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaye performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 784 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jaye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 113 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaye in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaye in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,455 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.