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Jaya

#2,204 in 2025Girls' name

Victory

Jaya has been given to 3,935 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,204 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Jaya, 2025

1 in 39,500

Jaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaya: meaning, origin, and history

Victory

Sanskrit

What Jaya means

Jaya means “victory”, associated with jaya.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,907 girls were recorded with the name Jaya between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,299 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,933 in 2020 to #2,204 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,614 in 2015 to #2,204 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Jaya between 1971 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #5,254 in 1971.

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 Jaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,204
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaya was born before 2009 — so the typical Jaya is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,907
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (1,510).

Is Jaya 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
+170
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−271
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−590
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.9%
Peak was 2007 (183)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,299
2003

Spellings of Jaya

Jaya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 9.3% against Jaya's 0.08%.

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 Jaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 19,343 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2Illinois1 in 14,286
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 20,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Jaya around the world

Where Jaya 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
    1996–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2019
    #650
    in 2019
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,206
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Jaya

People whose public names include Jaya, 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.

Jaya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jaya. Linked forms have their own page here.

JaiaJanyaJaïa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,204
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 271
Best rank ever
#1,299
2003
Peak year
2007
183 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,907
Count in 2025
84

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,254
1971
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaya

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

JayeJaynaJayJayciJaycieJaydeJayceJaymieZayaJaylenNayaTayaLayaJaylynRayaJaymeArayaJaymeeHayaInayaKayaJaylaniJayleeSaya

Names with a curve like Jaya

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

LluviaIzabelAnaliseAditiAnnalieseRileeMackennaYarelyAnanyaYamiletAlanahElli

Sibling names for Jaya

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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