Jayna
Jayna was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,490 among girls’ names; 5,370 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,200 Americans named Jayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayna?
#3,490 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayna fell from #2,445 in 2015 to #3,490 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.0 to 27.4 per million.
179 babies in 2006, the peak
Jayna peaked in 2006, when 179 girls were given it, #1,312 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,490 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,951 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,205 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,095 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,234 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,202 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,386 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,518 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,034 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,330 | 45.7 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,445 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 114 | #1,799 | 63.8 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,222 | 47.9 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,656 | 73.3 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,798 | 64.2 |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,670 | 71.4 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,708 | 70.8 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,579 | 76.7 |
| 2007 | 164 | #1,441 | 85.3 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,312 | 94.2 |
| 2005 | 175 | #1,277 | 94.7 |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,375 | 82.8 |
| 2003 | 159 | #1,305 | 87.0 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,356 | 79.6 |
| 2001 | 161 | #1,241 | 89.4 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,437 | 70.5 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,425 | 69.3 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,545 | 61.1 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,723 | 51.7 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,867 | 44.5 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,887 | 42.1 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,381 | 66.6 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,886 | 41.5 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,785 | 43.9 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,998 | 36.8 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,882 | 39.5 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,572 | 48.3 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,993 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,865 | 35.7 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,699 | 40.2 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,717 | 38.9 |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,406 | 49.3 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,703 | 38.3 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,744 | 37.8 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,683 | 40.8 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,577 | 44.6 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,631 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,618 | 43.1 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,352 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,007 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,424 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,110 | 26.6 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,038 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,933 | 28.3 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,984 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,967 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,943 | 24.9 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,866 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,987 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,032 | 19.5 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,013 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,760 | 23.2 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,572 | 27.0 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,839 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,484 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,074 | 15.3 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,034 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,528 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,556 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,864 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,026 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,075 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,356 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,974 | 7.5 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,733 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,667 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayna, and how old are they?
5,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,370 Americans ever recorded as Jayna. The median Jayna alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 4,895 people named Jayna (4,876 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 311 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 668 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 851 |
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 Jayna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 8 | #756 | 1.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,736 | 0.6× |
Where Jayna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayna is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1946 it was given 1.1 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 Jayna 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 504,922 babies since 1880, Jayna is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 1,933 babies (2.3%), 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 Jayna
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 Jayna and names like it
- Compare Jayna and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayna peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayna since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jayna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.