Jia
Jia reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 1,796, and has been recorded 2,247 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,796th. About 2,200 Jias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jia boys named Jia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,247
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,796th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,796th
- First recorded
- 1969
- Girls / boys
- 2,033 / 214
How old the living Jias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,247 babies given the name since 1969, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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.
Notable Jias
- Hu Jia (born 1973)Chinese activist
- Jia Xiuquan (born 1963)Chinese footballer and manager
- Jia Yifan (born 1997)Chinese badminton player
- Guo Jia (170–207)Adviser to the warlord Cao Cao
- Hu Jia (born 1983)diver
- Jia Tolentino (born 1988)American writer and editor
- Jia Kui (174–228)Cao Wei general and politician
People named Jia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jia is most concentrated in New York (4.5×), New Jersey (3.1×), California (2.6×), Florida (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Jia peaked:
Jia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Jia | 728 | 608th |
| England and Wales boys | Jia | 305 | 728th |
| France girls | Jia | 85 | 4,973rd |
| Scotland girls | Jia | 35 | 512th |
| Scotland boys | Jia | 28 | 483rd |
| Ireland girls | Jia | 22 | 635th |
| Ireland boys | Jia | 17 | 448th |
| France boys | Jia | 15 | 4,707th |
| Belgium boys | Jia | 5 | 1,395th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jia | 4 | 282nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jia | 4 | 318th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Jia | 19 | 32 |
| Finland boys | Jia | 8 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 190 women called Jia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Jia | 60 | 0.020 | 2,261 |
| Valencia/València | Jia | 23 | 0.016 | 2,435 |
| Madrid | Jia | 51 | 0.014 | 2,917 |
| Sevilla | Jia | 5 | 0.005 | 3,904 |
Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.