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Jj

#3,104 in 2025Boys' name

He will/shall heel, through Jacob

Jj has been given to 767 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #3,104 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Jj, 2025

1 in 85,000

Jj over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jj: meaning, origin, and history

He will/shall heel, through Jacob

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jj means

Jj belongs to the name family reached through Jj → Jacob. Its meaning is “he will/shall heel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jj is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 767 boys were recorded with the name Jj between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,870 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,963 in 2020 to #3,104 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,459 in 2015 to #3,104 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jj?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,104
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jj 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 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jjs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jj was born before 2012 — so the typical Jj is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
767
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Choose a decade

2020s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (209).

Is Jj 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
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+859
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,355
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2022 (39)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,870
1974

Where Jj is used

Across 1910–2025, Jj was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 694,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Jj has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jj around the world

Where Jj 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
    2001–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Jj by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,104
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 859
Best rank ever
#2,870
1974
Peak year
2022
39 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
767
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Jj

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

JjesusJjuanHajjJjamesMunajj

Sibling names for Jj

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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