Jin
Jin was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,433 among boys’ names; 1,845 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Jin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jin is “a Japanese male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “benevolence” (literally).
From Japanese 仁 (“Jin”, literally “benevolence”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jin?
#2,433 among boys’ names, 2025
Jin rose from #2,787 in 2015 to #2,433 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 22.4 to 32.8 per million.
65 babies in 2023, the peak
Jin peaked in 2023, when 65 boys were given it, #2,202 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 56 | #2,433 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,640 | 51 | #2,613 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 65 | #2,202 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 54 | #2,536 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,257 | 51 | #2,564 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 29 | #3,686 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,580 | 33 | #3,452 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 37 | #3,130 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 31 | #3,545 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 31 | #3,562 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 43 | #2,787 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,478 | 36 | #3,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,804 | 37 | #3,025 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,817 | 52 | #2,427 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,679 | 25 | #4,042 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,861 | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 35 | #3,242 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,515 | 32 | #3,453 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,433 | 43 | #2,778 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,908 | 45 | #2,639 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,748 | 39 | #2,772 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,253 | 36 | #2,862 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,800 | 44 | #2,405 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,118 | 25 | #3,498 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,937 | 25 | #3,451 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,478 | 19 | #4,121 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,471 | 27 | #3,058 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 15 | #4,511 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,465 | 9 | #6,334 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,125 | 24 | #3,063 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,389 | 18 | #3,615 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,110 | 25 | #2,890 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,982 | 31 | #2,421 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,340 | 30 | #2,428 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,383 | 21 | #3,049 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,141 | 12 | #4,531 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,392 | 27 | #2,433 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,729 | 14 | #3,598 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,502 | 19 | #2,768 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,936 | 14 | #3,338 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,874 | 15 | #3,138 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,674 | 12 | #3,564 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,265 | 15 | #2,991 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,120 | 14 | #3,194 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,392 | 14 | #3,126 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,705 | |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,908 | 9 | #4,220 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,983 | 5 | #6,254 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,258 | 10 | #3,714 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,258 | 7 | #4,651 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,757 | 6 | #5,096 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,223 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,450 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,765 | 8 | #3,793 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,481 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,817 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,510 |
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 Jin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,845 Americans recorded as Jin, 21% are girls and 79% boys. In 2025 it went to 56 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Jin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jin, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,845 Americans ever recorded as Jin. The median Jin alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 14,306 people named Jin (6,859 women and girls, 7,447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 464 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 634 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 582 |
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 Jin born?
The states with the most babies named Jin are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,095 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,184 | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | #1,886 | 0.6× |
Where Jin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jin is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.4 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 boys’ 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 Jin 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,070 babies since 1880, Jin is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 96 babies (58%), again the 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 Jin
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 Jin and names like it
- Compare Jin and JianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJin peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jin since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.