Jah
#3,339 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jah has been given to 465 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #3,339 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Jah, 2025
1 in 94,700
Jah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,339
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jah was born before 2019 — so the typical Jah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 48.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 465
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (225).
Is Jah 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
- +144
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −293
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,964
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.89×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.4%
- Peak was 2022 (41)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.4% average annual change
Where Jah is used
Across 1910–2025, Jah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 802,307 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jah around the world
Where Jah 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.
- France2020–2020#6,203in 2020
- South Australia2005–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.