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Jia

#1,802 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Good, auspicious, beautiful

Jia has been given to 2,247 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,802 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 112 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Jia, 2025

1 in 29,600

Jia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jia over time

In 2025, Jia went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19692025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jia: meaning, origin, and history

Good, auspicious, beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jia means

Jia means “good, auspicious, beautiful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,033 girls were recorded with the name Jia between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,802 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,403 in 2020 to #1,802 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,248 in 2015 to #1,802 in 2025.

In the United States, 214 boys were recorded with the name Jia between 1969 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,286 in 1998.

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 Jia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,600
112 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,802
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jia 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jia was born before 2015 — so the typical Jia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,033
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (746).

Is Jia 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
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+601
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+446
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (112)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,802
2025

Where Jia is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Jia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 17,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 8,333
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 14,286
  5. 5New York1 in 14,286
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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.

Where Jia is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 118,963 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Jia around the world

Where Jia 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2005
    #318
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    2002–2017
    #734
    in 2017
  • France
    2004–2025
    #4,973
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Jia

People whose public names include Jia, 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.

Jia in other languages

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

KeGiaKaiChiaGaZhìyǎ

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

Jia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,802
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 601
Best rank ever
#1,802
2025
Peak year
2025
112 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,033
Count in 2025
112

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,286
1998
Peak year
2003
17 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jia

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

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Names with a curve like Jia

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

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Sibling names for Jia

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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