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Jairus

#2,622 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jairus has been given to 2,741 babies in the U.S. since 1933. In 2025 it ranked #2,622 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Jairus, 2025

1 in 66,300

Jairus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jairus: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jairus means

Jairus is a given name.

The naming story behind Jairus

Wikidata records Jairus as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q113961525, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,741 boys were recorded with the name Jairus between 1933 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,352 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,704 in 2020 to #2,622 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,809 in 2015 to #2,622 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jairus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,622
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jairus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jairus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jairuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jairus was born before 2003 — so the typical Jairus is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,736
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (690).

Is Jairus 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
+1,017
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−813
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.2%
Peak was 2015 (83)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,352
1994

Spellings of Jairus

Jairus is not the most common spelling — Jairo is, with 35.1% against Jairus's 8.4%.

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.

Where Jairus is used

Across 1910–2025, Jairus was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 157,964 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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. Jairus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jairus around the world

Where Jairus 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 & Wales
    2002–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2022
    #6,426
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jairus

People whose public names include Jairus, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jairus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,622
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#1,352
1994
Peak year
2015
83 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,741
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Jairus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jairus

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jairus, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jairus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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