Jye
#12,914 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jye has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #12,914 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Jye, 2025
1 in 663,000
Jye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jye?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,914
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jye 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jye was born before 2013 — so the typical Jye is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (44).
Is Jye 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
- −1,649
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,857
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2016 (10)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.1% average annual change
Jye around the world
Where Jye 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 & Wales1997–2012#3,987in 2012
- South Australia1975–2013#239in 2013
- New South Wales2001–2001#97in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.
Jye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.