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Jaida vs Jaiya

American parents have registered 9,659 Jaidas since 1880, against 789 Jaiyas. Jaida is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaida against Jaiya, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaida Jaiya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jaida has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jaida had 47 and Jaiya had 29.

Side by side

  Jaida Jaiya
Total US births 9,659789
Most in one year 59845
Babies in 2025 4729
Estimated living today 9,600780
Median age today 1713
Peak year 20082010
Best rank 517th girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296th4,661st
First recorded 19771996
Girls / boys 9,659 / 0789 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaidas alive today are over 17; half the Jaiyas are over 13. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaida Jaiya
England and Wales 415188

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaida and Jaiya.