How popular is “Jaye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jaye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jaye” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jaye” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jaye” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jaye” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jaye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jaye” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1920	5	0.00000221		5	-100%
1923	8	0.000003475		8	-100%
1927	6	0.000002587	6		100%
1929	5	0.000002281	5		100%
1930	10	0.000004498		10	-100%
1931	6	0.000002851		6	-100%
1932	12	0.000005684	5	7	-17%
1933	5	0.000002501		5	-100%
1934	15	0.000007223	9	6	20%
1935	5	0.000002392	5		100%
1937	20	0.000009387	11	9	10%
1938	14	0.000006327	7	7	0%
1939	5	0.000002269		5	-100%
1940	7	0.00000304	7		100%
1941	12	0.000004925	7	5	17%
1942	25	0.000009151	18	7	44%
1943	27	0.000009566	22	5	63%
1944	17	0.00000632	17		100%
1945	27	0.000010178	21	6	56%
1946	28	0.000008763	20	8	43%
1947	37	0.000010271	29	8	57%
1948	40	0.000011586	34	6	70%
1949	28	0.000008035	20	8	43%
1950	40	0.000011418	29	11	45%
1951	30	0.000008144	22	8	47%
1952	43	0.000011322	34	9	58%
1953	35	0.000009082	26	9	49%
1954	105	0.000026377	79	26	50%
1955	129	0.000032129	116	13	80%
1956	190	0.000046083	173	17	82%
1957	150	0.000035696	132	18	76%
1958	110	0.000026609	90	20	64%
1959	115	0.000027658	83	32	44%
1960	109	0.000026241	91	18	67%
1961	97	0.000023417	74	23	53%
1962	95	0.000023542	76	19	60%
1963	80	0.000020211	64	16	60%
1964	66	0.000016977	45	21	36%
1965	59	0.000016274	40	19	36%
1966	51	0.000014673	32	19	25%
1967	48	0.000014139	32	16	33%
1968	50	0.0000148	31	19	24%
1969	46	0.000013236	27	19	17%
1970	31	0.000008596	20	11	29%
1971	42	0.000012236	25	17	19%
1972	33	0.0000105	22	11	33%
1973	47	0.000015579	29	18	23%
1974	28	0.000009211	21	7	50%
1975	37	0.000012254	25	12	35%
1976	35	0.000011535	15	20	-14%
1977	32	0.000010074	18	14	13%
1978	40	0.000012603	24	16	20%
1979	41	0.000012323	32	9	56%
1980	31	0.000009	16	15	3%
1981	29	0.000008383	18	11	24%
1982	32	0.000009122	20	12	25%
1983	37	0.000010683	25	12	35%
1984	35	0.000010032	20	15	14%
1985	23	0.000006444	10	13	-13%
1986	22	0.000006185	12	10	9%
1987	31	0.000008598	19	12	23%
1988	39	0.000010555	19	20	-3%
1989	34	0.000008844	20	14	18%
1990	24	0.000006072	7	17	-42%
1991	38	0.000009755	16	22	-16%
1992	22	0.000005727	11	11	0%
1993	35	0.000009283	18	17	3%
1994	31	0.000008339	21	10	35%
1995	25	0.000006827	17	8	36%
1996	28	0.000007677	18	10	29%
1997	21	0.000005792	15	6	43%
1998	29	0.000007884	19	10	31%
1999	31	0.000008392	20	11	29%
2000	27	0.000007143	15	12	11%
2001	20	0.000005343	10	10	0%
2002	19	0.000005083	14	5	47%
2003	25	0.000006575	19	6	52%
2004	24	0.000006281	10	14	-17%
2005	20	0.000005202	14	6	40%
2006	27	0.000006825	15	12	11%
2007	22	0.000005503	12	10	9%
2008	21	0.000005343	12	9	14%
2009	21	0.000005497	16	5	52%
2010	34	0.0000092	19	15	12%
2011	23	0.000006288	13	10	13%
2012	24	0.000006562	12	12	0%
2013	26	0.000007132	18	8	38%
2014	23	0.000006206	13	10	13%
2015	29	0.000007836	14	15	-3%
2016	32	0.000008722	23	9	44%
2017	24	0.000006711	16	8	33%
2018	20	0.000005688	11	9	10%
2019	34	0.000009796	17	17	0%
2020	9	0.000002694		9	-100%
2021	28	0.000008265	15	13	7%
2022	20	0.000005912	15	5	50%
2023	17	0.000005134	10	7	18%
2024	17	0.000005107	11	6	29%

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