Jendaya

#15,939 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jendaya has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #15,939 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Jendaya, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jendaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,939
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jendaya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jendaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jendayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jendaya was born before 2001 — so the typical Jendaya is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
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Choose a decade

2000s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Jendaya 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
41.7%
Peak was 1999 (12)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,930
1999

Spellings of Jendaya

Jendaya is not the most common spelling — Janaya is, with 36.4% against Jendaya's 0.77%.

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.

Jendaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,939
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,930
1999
Peak year
1999
12 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jendaya

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

Sibling names for Jendaya

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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