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Jiya

Jiya is a girl's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 1,605th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,611th. About 2,300 Jiyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jiya

By the numbers

Total US births
2,325
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
11
Peak year
2008
Best rank
1,605th
Rank in 2025
1,611th
First recorded
1995

How old the living Jiyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,325 babies given the name since 1995, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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.

Where Jiya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jiya is most concentrated in New Jersey (6.6×), California (2.4×), Florida (2.0×), Texas (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Jiya peaked:

All the names of 2008

Jiya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Jiya 1,007 610th
France girls Jiya 15 4,707th
Ireland girls Jiya 3 898th
Scotland girls Jiya 3 802nd
Poland girls Jiya 2 birth registrations 711th

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.

Jiya 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 Jiya 5 5

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.

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.