Girls' name · since 1979
Jigna
Jigna has 19 recorded births since 1979 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1984 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 19
- total births
- 1979–1990
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 37%
- born in that decade
Jigna sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 19 recorded since 1979.
Jigna has 19 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 1990.
- 19 total births
- 1979–1990 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 37% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jigna's 19 recorded births place it above 35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jigna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jigna splits its recorded history at 1984: 74% of all births land in the more recent half, 26% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1979 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1984 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jigna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–1990
- Peak year (1984)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Jigna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jigna's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Jigna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
7 births
- 1990s
1990s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 7 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Jigna's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (7 total births) through the 1990s (7) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jigna: Baby Name Since 1979 - 19 Births, Peak 1984." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jigna. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jigna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.