Girls' name · since 2008
Jayva
Jayva has 33 recorded births since 2008 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2008 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #39,867 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 33
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Jayva sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 33 recorded since 2008.
Jayva has 33 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2019.
- #39,867 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 33 born since 2008
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jayva ranks #39,867 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 33 born since 2008, peaking in the 2010s.
- #39,867 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 33
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Jayva's 33 recorded births place it above 44.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jayva's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jayva's full recorded timeline at 2014, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2009, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2008 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jayva popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2019
- Peak year (2008)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Jayva by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (21 births, 64% of the file).
2010s was Jayva's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Jayva births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
12 births
- 2010s
2010s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 21 births (64% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jayva: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jayva draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.