Jiayi

#9,129 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Good, auspicious, beautiful or home, family

Jiayi has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #9,129 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% girls, 33% boys all-time.

Babies named Jiayi, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jiayi over time

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

20072025

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.

Jiayi: meaning, origin, and history

Good, auspicious, beautiful or home, family

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jiayi means

Jiayi means “good, auspicious, beautiful or home, family”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 123 girls were recorded with the name Jiayi between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,116 in 2016.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,338 in 2015 to #9,129 in 2025.

In the United States, 60 boys were recorded with the name Jiayi between 2009 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,475 in 2017.

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 Jiayi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,129
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jiayi 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jiayi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jiayis were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
123
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Jiayi 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
+5,119
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,209
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.7%
Peak was 2016 (12)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,116
2016

Spellings of Jiayi

Jiayi is not the most common spelling — Jami is, with 38.2% against Jiayi's 0.22%.

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 Jiayi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jiayi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,000,798 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Jiayi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jiayi is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jiayi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,179,088 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Jiayi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jiayi around the world

Where Jiayi 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
    2006–2017
    #2,925
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jiayi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,129
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,116
2016
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
123
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,475
2017
Peak year
2017
13 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Jiayi

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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