Jirah
#7,653 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jirah has been given to 347 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #7,653 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.
Babies named Jirah, 2025
1 in 237,000
Jirah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jirah over time
In 2025, Jirah went to 58% girls and 42% boys.
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.
How common is Jirah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,653
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jirah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jirah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jirahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jirah was born before 2010 — so the typical Jirah is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 277
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (111).
Is Jirah 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
- −584
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,552
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,680
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.9%
- Peak was 2023 (23)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Jirah
Jirah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 80.4% against Jirah's 0.02%.
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.
Jirah around the world
Where Jirah 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.
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jirah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jirah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jirah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.