Jiayi
Jiayi was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,129 among girls’ names; 183 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiayi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiayi?
#9,129 among girls’ names, 2025
Jiayi rose from #12,338 in 2015 to #9,129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.8 per million.
22 babies in 2017, the peak
Jiayi peaked in 2017, when 22 babies were given it (9 girls, #11,099 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,129 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,248 | 6 | #11,573 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,251 | 8 | #9,300 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,068 | 5 | #13,033 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,907 | 7 | #10,140 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,099 | 13 | #6,475 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,116 | 5 | #13,132 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,338 | 6 | #11,331 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,726 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,583 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,790 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,729 | 5 | #13,230 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,587 | 5 | #13,366 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,512 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,583 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jiayi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 183 Americans recorded as Jiayi, 67% are girls and 33% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 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 Jiayi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiayi, and how old are they?
An estimated 182 Americans named Jiayi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,978 people named Jiayi (1,596 women and girls, 382 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.5 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,022 babies since 1880, Jiayi is the fourth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 289 babies (3.8%), again the fourth 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 Jiayi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 2000-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Braylynn | 1,816 |
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 Jiayi and names like it
- Compare Jiayi and JiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJiayi peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jiayi since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Jiayi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jiayi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.