Jiah
Jiah was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,941 among girls’ names; 267 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiah?
#3,941 among girls’ names, 2025
Jiah rose from #15,328 in 2015 to #3,941 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 23.0 per million.
37 babies in 2025, the peak
Jiah peaked in 2025, when 37 girls were given it, #3,941 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 26 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,941 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,075 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,424 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,081 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,087 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,047 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,858 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,144 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,120 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,708 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,328 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,245 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,879 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,018 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,357 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,747 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,432 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,427 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,799 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,930 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 265 Americans named Jiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Jiah (214 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jiah?
Jiah is a less common spelling of Jiya: SSA has recorded 267 Jiah and 2,325 Jiya since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,867 babies since 1880, Jiah is the fifth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 314 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Jiah
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 Jiah and names like it
- Compare Jiah and JiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJiah peaked in 2025.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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