Jae
Recorded 1918–2025 · United States
Jae was most popular in 2020, when 71 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,319 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,960, with 60 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,980 people named Jae.
Jae over time
How old is the name Jae?
Jae first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1918, which makes it about 107 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 108 years since.
How many people are named Jae?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,980 American births named Jae between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,745 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Jae in 2025?
60 American babies were named Jae in 2025, ranking #4,960 that year.
Is Jae getting more or less popular?
Jae is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 57 births a year, against 62 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -7% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Jae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Jae is a unisex name — 43.0% of the 2,980 Americans given it were girls and 57.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2007 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 39% girls and 61% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Jae?
Roughly 2,745 Americans named Jae are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 25 years old, and half are between 12 and 42. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Jae is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org