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Jaysa

About 550 American babies have been named Jaysa since 1978, most of them around 2008. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 540 Jaysas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jaysa

By the numbers

Total US births
550
Estimated living today
540
Median age today
19
Peak year
2008
Best rank
4,761st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1978

How old the living Jaysas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 550 babies given the name since 1978, about 540 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Jaysa peaked:

All the names of 2008

Related names

Jaysa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.