Jiraiya
Jiraiya was given to 231 boys in 2025, #990 among boys’ names; 2,409 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Jiraiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiraiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiraiya?
#990 among boys’ names, 2025
Jiraiya rose from #2,701 in 2015 to #990 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.14 per 1,000.
374 babies in 2023, the peak
Jiraiya peaked in 2023, when 374 babies were given it (357 boys, #736 among boys’ names). The 250 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 231 | #990 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 254 | #917 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 357 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 317 | #796 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 289 | #825 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,081 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,397 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,559 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,262 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,010 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,199 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,272 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,491 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,463 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,525 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jiraiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,409 Americans recorded as Jiraiya, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls and 231 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jiraiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiraiya, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,409 Americans ever recorded as Jiraiya. The median Jiraiya alive today is 4 years old; half are between 3 and 7.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 154 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,240 |
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.
Where are babies named Jiraiya born?
The states with the most babies named Jiraiya are California, Texas and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 36 | #739 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 34 | #798 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,158 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 10 | #578 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #954 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 8 | #979 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8 | #972 | 0.3× |
| New Mexico | 7 | #285 | 2.6× |
| Arizona | 6 | #886 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,205 | 0.6× |
Where Jiraiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jiraiya is most over-represented in Texas: since 2007 it was given 1.3 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 Jiraiya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jiraiya
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 Jiraiya and names like it
- Compare Jiraiya and WylderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJiraiya peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jiraiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jiraiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jiraiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.