Jia — #1826 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,921 babies named Jia between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jia currently holds the #1826 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 111 babies received it in a single year. Jia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 214 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 746 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 273 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jia in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jia 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 1,921 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.