Jia
Jia was given to 112 girls in 2025, #1,802 among girls’ names; 2,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Jia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jia?
#1,802 among girls’ names, 2025
Jia rose from #2,248 in 2015 to #1,802 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 47.1 to 69.7 per million.
112 babies in 2025, the peak
Jia peaked in 2025, when 112 girls were given it, #1,802 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 110 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,802 | 69.7 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,830 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,819 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,014 | 59.1 |
| 2021 | 110 | #1,834 | 67.0 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,403 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,388 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,957 | 59.4 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,882 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,160 | 50.8 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,248 | 47.1 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,989 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,694 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,529 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,266 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,851 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,625 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,937 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,658 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,740 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,140 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,850 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,832 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,023 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,137 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,711 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,639 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,233 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,464 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,632 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,810 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,457 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,314 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,229 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,139 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,681 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,161 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,980 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,417 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,378 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,098 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,406 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,119 | 5.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,856 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,251 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,560 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,247 Americans recorded as Jia, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 112 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jia, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,247 Americans ever recorded as Jia. The median Jia alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 5,991 people named Jia (4,274 women and girls, 1,717 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 179 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 888 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,140 |
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 Jia born?
The states with the most babies named Jia are California, Texas and Georgia, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,039 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,572 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,023 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,258 | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,110 | 0.2× |
Where Jia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jia is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 2.8 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 Jia 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,867 babies since 1880, Jia is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 314 babies (36%), again the second 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 Jia
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 Jia and names like it
- Compare Jia and JiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJia peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.