Jigna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jigna has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1984, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Jigna, 1990

1 in 564,000

Jigna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jigna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jigna means

Jigna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jigna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Jigna between 1979 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1984; its best national rank was #8,535 in 1984.

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.

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How common is Jigna?

Jigna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990: 1 in 564,000; 7 of 3,949,959 births
Among girls only: 1 in 271,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1990: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,130 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jigna 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 1990 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 391,130 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jigna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jignas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jigna was born before 1984 — so the typical Jigna is around 41 today.

Median birth year: 1984; About 41 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 19; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Jigna 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1984 (7)
Years since peak: 41; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,535; 1984

Spellings of Jigna

Jigna is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 23.7% against Jigna's <0.01%.

Diana23.7%368,487
Tina18.8%292,146
Gina9.8%153,057
Jenna9.5%148,587
Nina8.6%133,788
Jana3.0%46,185
Ina2.2%34,074
Fiona2.2%33,959

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.

Jigna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,535; 1984
Peak year: 1984; 7 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 1990
All-time count: 19
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jigna

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

Migna Megna Aagna Regna Ariagna Agna Alegna Pragna Legna Digna Manogna Ragna Abhigna Reigna Signa Benigna

Sibling names for Jigna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Venessa Linsey Candis Afton Tanesha Kristan Matthew Tera

For a brother

Marques Brenton Whitney Shea Darnell Derik Derrell Donnell

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