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Jayesh

Boys' name

Lord of victory

Jayesh has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2009, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Jayesh, 2018

1 in 703,000

Jayesh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jayesh: meaning, origin, and history

Lord of victory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jayesh means

Jayesh means “lord of victory”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jayesh is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 77 boys were recorded with the name Jayesh between 1977 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,437 in 1977.

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 Jayesh?

Jayesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jayesh 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jayesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jayeshs were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
77
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Jayesh 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (7)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,437
1977

Spellings of Jayesh

Jayesh is not the most common spelling — James is, with 99.4% against Jayesh'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.

Jayesh around the world

Where Jayesh 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
    1996–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jayesh 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
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Best rank ever
#5,437
1977
Peak year
2009
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jayesh

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

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Sibling names for Jayesh

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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