How Many People Are Named Jaya?
people named Jaya are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 87,794 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,935 babies named Jaya in Social Security records from 1969 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
189 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Derived from Sanskrit เคเคฏ (jaya) meaning "victory". This is a transcription of both the feminine form เคเคฏเคพ (an epithet of the Hindu goddess Durga) and the masculine form เคเคฏ (borne by several characters in Hindu texts). As a modern personal name, this transcription is both feminine and masculine in southern India, but typically only feminine in the north.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
โง Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Jaya, 99.3% were girls and 0.7% were boys.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Jaya alive today is about 17 years old, and 91% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 22 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Jaya first appears in the records in 1969 and was given most often in 2007, to 189 babies. In 2025, 84 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1969 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Jaya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,299, in 2003. In 2025 it ranked #2,204.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,204 |
| Best rank | #1,299 (2003) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,426 in the 2000s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Jaya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jaya were born in California than in any other state: about 441 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jaya was given 1.8 times as often in New York, 1.7 times in Ohio and 1.6 times in Florida.
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