Jiraiya
#990 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jiraiya has been given to 2,409 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #990 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 357 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Jiraiya, 2025
1 in 14,400
Jiraiya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jiraiya over time
In 2025, Jiraiya went to 8% girls and 92% 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 Jiraiya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 14,400
- 231 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 7,390
- 0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #990
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 9,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jiraiya 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 9,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jiraiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jiraiyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jiraiya was born before 2022 — so the typical Jiraiya is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 71.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,278
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 71.6% of all recorded uses (1,632).
Is Jiraiya 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
- −73
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +91
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,711
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.7%
- Peak was 2023 (357)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Where Jiraiya is used
Across 2016–2025, Jiraiya was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 9,171 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New Mexico1 in 1,852
- 2Nevada1 in 3,704
- 3Arizona1 in 4,545
- 4Texas1 in 5,556
- 5North Dakota1 in 5,882
- 6Washington1 in 6,667
- 7Colorado1 in 7,143
- 8Florida1 in 7,143
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.
Jiraiya around the world
Where Jiraiya 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 & Wales2016–2025#3,684in 2025
- Canada2017–2024#2,855in 2024
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 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.
Jiraiya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jiraiya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jiraiya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jiraiya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jiraiya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.