Ijah
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ijah has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.
Babies named Ijah, 2013
1 in 521,000
Ijah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ijah over time
In 2016, Ijah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ijah?
Ijah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 521,000
- 7 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 361,026 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ijah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 361,026 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ijah was born before 2003 — so the typical Ijah is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 68.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 57
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Ijah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (11)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.9% average annual change
Spellings of Ijah
Ijah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 32.3% against Ijah's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Ijah around the world
Where Ijah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2025#5,137in 2025
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.