Jayah
Girl · JAH-ya · Sanskrit
Jayah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “victory”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Jayah mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Jaya
“victory”
Jaya, the victorious, is an epithet of the Hindu goddess Durga.
- Say it
- JAH-ya
Meaning borrowed from Jaya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Jayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Jayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jayah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Jayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Jayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Jayah, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Jayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 101 girls in the US were given Jayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,677, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
- Jaya 84
- Jayah 17
Jayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,303 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,849 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,582 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,646 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,130 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,414 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
Names like Jayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Safa Aaliyah Zainab Hafsa Hiba Summer Sumayyah Raya Maya Nusaybah Rahma
Other spellings of Jayah
Names related to Jayah
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