Jaja

Boys' name

Diminutive of Janet or Jasmin or Lydia

Jaja has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1972, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Jaja, 1992

1 in 427,000

Jaja over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaja: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Janet or Jasmin or Lydia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaja means

Jaja is a diminutive of Janet or Jasmin or Lydia.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaja is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janet, Jasmin and Lydia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Jaja between 1971 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1972; its best national rank was #2,040 in 1972.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaja?

Jaja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992: 1 in 427,000; 9 of 3,839,369 births
Among boys only: 1 in 222,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1992: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 295,695 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jaja 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 1992 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 295,695 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jajas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaja was born before 1975 — so the typical Jaja is around 50 today.

Median birth year: 1975; About 50 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 109; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Jaja 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 1972 (20)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,040; 1972

Spellings of Jaja

Jaja is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 51.8% against Jaja's <0.01%.

Jack51.8%756,943
Jay13.4%195,548
Jake8.8%129,322
Jace6.3%91,544
Dana3.6%53,287
Jamal2.3%33,235
Jax1.7%25,085
Jase1.6%23,905

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 Jaja is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaja was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Jaja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jaja by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,040; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 20 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 1992
All-time count: 109
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jaja

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

Raja Aja Taja Jajaun Jajuan Naja Faraja Semaja Jajuane Khawaja

Sibling names for Jaja

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

For a sister

Nicola Latonia Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Charisse Melonie

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie Erich

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