Jyoti — girls' name
235 babies named Jyoti in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Jyoti was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Jyoti in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jyoti
The Social Security Administration has registered 235 babies named Jyoti between 1968 and 2019, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jyoti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jyoti performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jyoti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jyoti in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jyoti in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 235 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jyoti at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jyoti popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1968
- Peak year (1979)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
235 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 12 births in a single year.
Jyoti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 69 births that decade — 29% of Jyoti's all-time total
Jyoti decade highlights
- Peak decade 69 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jyoti's strongest decade
69 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Jyoti by state
Where Jyoti concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.1% |
5 of 235 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.