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Jaiyah

Gender
Girl
Say it
JY-uh
Origin
Sanskrit
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Jaiyah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

Where does Jaiyah come from?

Sanskrit: spelling of Jaiya; probably a spelling of Jaya 'victory'

Meaning borrowed from Jaiya.

Is Jaiyah a girl's or a boy's name?

Jaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jaiyah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Jaiyah, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Jaiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 77 girls in the US were given Jaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,026, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 16 in 20212025
Jaiyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202413#7,962
20238#11,164
202210#9,674
202116#6,962
202010#9,541
201913#8,134
201810#9,801
201713#8,295
201614#7,985
20158#11,830
20148#11,925
201313#8,575
201212#9,105
20119#11,175
201010#10,446
200911#9,971
200813#8,961
200714#8,516
20067#13,601
200514#7,886
20049#10,684
20036#13,837
200214#7,438
20018#11,013

Names like Jaiyah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Jaiyah

Names related to Jaiyah

More Sanskrit names

Every Sanskrit name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jaiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaiyah, updated 20 October 2026.