Jiya
Jiya was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,615 among girls’ names; 2,325 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,310 Americans named Jiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiya?
#1,615 among girls’ names, 2025
Jiya rose from #2,066 in 2015 to #1,615 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 80.3 per million.
141 babies in 2008, the peak
Jiya peaked in 2008, when 141 girls were given it, #1,611 among girls’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,615 | 80.3 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,831 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,913 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,182 | 53.0 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,095 | 55.5 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,853 | 65.0 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,825 | 66.7 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,053 | 55.8 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,895 | 62.0 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,805 | 64.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,066 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,207 | 48.1 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,798 | 65.0 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,843 | 62.5 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,668 | 72.2 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,985 | 56.8 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,050 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,611 | 74.6 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,138 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,119 | 48.4 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,684 | 34.1 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,974 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,905 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,021 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,772 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,479 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,782 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,148 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,438 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiya, and how old are they?
2,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,325 Americans ever recorded as Jiya. The median Jiya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,685 people named Jiya (1,665 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,714 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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 Jiya born?
The states with the most babies named Jiya are California, New Jersey and New York, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #1,165 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #482 | 3.9× |
| New York | 13 | #1,116 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,851 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,770 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,448 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,134 | 0.2× |
Where Jiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jiya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1995 it was given 3.9 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 girls’ 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 Jiya 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,867 babies since 1880, Jiya is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 314 babies (41%), 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 Jiya
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 Jiya and names like it
- Compare Jiya and JiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJiya peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.