Jayjay
Jayjay was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,255 among boys’ names; 209 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayjay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayjay?
#9,255 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayjay rose from #10,005 in 2015 to #9,255 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 4.7 per million.
12 babies in 2014, the peak
Jayjay peaked in 2014, when 12 boys were given it, #6,821 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,255 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,536 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,954 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,602 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,315 | 6.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,370 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,113 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,821 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,074 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,005 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,821 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,399 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,257 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,205 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,164 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,365 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,711 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,256 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,224 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,173 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,987 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,333 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,340 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,653 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,325 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,103 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,566 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayjay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayjay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayjay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayjay, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Jayjay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 633 people named Jayjay (72 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 318 babies since 1880, Jayjay is the most given (66% of them).
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 Jayjay
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 Jayjay and names like it
- Compare Jayjay and JajaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJayjay peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayjay since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Jayjay.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jayjay alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.