Jaye
Recorded 1920–2025 · United States
Jaye was most popular in 1956, when 190 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,221 that year. In 2025 it ranked #8,844, with 25 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,586 people named Jaye.
Jaye over time
How old is the name Jaye?
Jaye first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1920, which makes it about 105 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 99 of the 106 years since.
How many people are named Jaye?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,586 American births named Jaye 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 3,060 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Jaye in 2025?
25 American babies were named Jaye in 2025, ranking #8,844 that year.
Is Jaye getting more or less popular?
Jaye is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 21 births a year, against 25 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -14% 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 Jaye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Jaye is a unisex name — 68.8% of the 3,586 Americans given it were girls and 31.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 2021 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 58% girls and 42% 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 Jaye?
Roughly 3,060 Americans named Jaye are alive today — 85% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 57 years old, and half are between 32 and 68. 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 Jaye 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