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Jaya

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~3,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,194 among girls
Births in 2025
84 3,935 since 1880
Typical age
16 years, median

Jaya popularity over time

Jaya rank by birth year, 1969–2025Jaya ranked #5,974 in 1969 and #2,194 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,297, in 2003.#10,000#2,194best #1,297 in 2003197019801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1969–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2007: 189 births recorded as Jaya. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,194 with 84 births.

Over ten years the count has fallen 37%. Year on year the rank improved by 168.

Babies named Jaya per yearPeaks at 189 births in 2007.189 in 20070197019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Jaya?

An estimated 3,900 living Americans are called Jaya. That is out of 3,935 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Jaya?

Median age among living Jayas: 16. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Jaya a millennial-era name.

Your Jaya

Ages of living people named JayaHalf of living Jayas are older than 16 and half younger.median 1602040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Jaya is most common

The name is concentrated in Florida, at 1.4× the national rate.

Where Jaya is used more than average1 states use the name Jaya more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.4× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Jaya is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Florida 71 1.4×

Jaya in England and Wales

ONS recorded 19 births named Jaya in 2025, ranking it #1,584. That is 34% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Jaya comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit जय.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Jaya

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Jaya Bachchan Indian politician and actress 1948 57
Jaya Prada Indian actress and politician 1962 34
Jaya Bhattacharya Indian actress 1972 14
Jaya Ahsan Bangladeshi model and actress 1983 12
Jaya Thyagarajan Indian artist 1954 10
Jaya Mehta Gujarati poet, critic and translator from Gujarat, India 1932–2025 9
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Jaya

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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