Jazz — #4476 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jazz

The Social Security Administration has registered 897 babies named Jazz between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jazz currently holds the #4476 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Jazz is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 610 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jazz performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 278 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jazz shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 53 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jazz in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jazz 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 897 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.