Girl Names That Start With J
Girls' names beginning with J, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 4.2%
- vs 8.0% in 2000
- Names in use
- 998
- 4,854 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1941
- at 13.0% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #9
- by 2025 share
How J has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with J, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501#586 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 424#665 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 308#873 | Down 258 rank positions in five years | 1958 | |||
| 2,172#131 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 344#790 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 541#558 | Down 115 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 1,380#221 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 4,126#53 | Up 34 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 316#858 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 1,481#206 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 1,978#150 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 330#824 | Down 105 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 418#679 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 747#419 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 503#584 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 788#393 | Down 124 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 997#306 | Down 50 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 2,658#95 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 3,021#82 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,203#256 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 826#371 | Down 178 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 340#801 | Down 130 rank positions in five years | 1979 | |||
| 309#871 | Down 226 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 779#398 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 569#530 | Down 229 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 395#710 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 2,460#110 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 255#993 | Down 217 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,136#274 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 423#666 | Down 191 rank positions in five years | 1974 | |||
| 2,618#100 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 757#411 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,198#258 | Down 54 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 563#537 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 515#578 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 248#1,010 | Down 248 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 243#1,030 | Down 314 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 346#783 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 324#838 | Down 309 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 1,086#285 | Up 331 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 313#866 | Down 282 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 334#816 | Up 114 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 345#786 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 576#521 | Up 399 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 254#996 | Up 1,016 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 262#973 | Down 122 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 654#471 | Up 551 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 332#819 | Up 871 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 578#518 | Up 745 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 241#1,036 | Up 531 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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J names climbing fastest
Biggest J names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.