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Jie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Heroic, outstanding

Jie has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2000, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Jie, 2012

1 in 610,000

Jie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2012, Jie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19962012

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.

Jie: meaning, origin, and history

Heroic, outstanding

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jie means

Jie means “heroic, outstanding”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jie is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕjɛ/ for Jie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Jie between 1996 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2000; its best national rank was #7,081 in 2000.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Jie between 1997 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1997; its best national rank was #12,779 in 1997.

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 Jie?

Jie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jie 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 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jie was born before 2003 — so the typical Jie is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
61.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Jie 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 2000 (9)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,081
2000

Where Jie is used

Across 1910–2025, Jie was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Jie around the world

Where Jie 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
    2003–2011
    #3,830
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Jie 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
#7,081
2000
Peak year
2000
9 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,779
1997
Peak year
1997
6 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jie

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

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Sibling names for Jie

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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