Jae

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jae: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #759, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#759highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2008

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#1979
1999	#3225
2000	#1475
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2004	#2802
2006	#2781
2008	#4524

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #759 among boys in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jae appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 308 births with the name.

Jae across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#759 (1997)	#5119 (2024)	26 of 29	308 (1996–2024)	21 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1475 (2000)	#4524 (2008)	10 of 13	57 (1996–2008)	12 (2000)

Jae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jae in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	78	4 of 10	20
2000sbusiest	142	10 of 10	14
2010s	78	9 of 10	9
2020s	10	3 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #759 in England and Wales in 1997.

Jae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1252	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#883	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#759	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #759, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Akira · #760, 29y
Ellouise · #758, 28y
Huma · #758, 28y
Kairon · #758, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akira · #760, 29y
Alexie · #758, 19y
Dannii · #758, 18y
Ellouise · #758, 28y

Jae was ranked #759 in England and Wales · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jae without appearing here.

Jae moved ahead of

Fionn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4373 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #4598.
Gail Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #4598.
Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4373 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2781 and #4157.
Jeanette Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4373 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #3725.

Moved ahead of Jae

Luca Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1475 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #1658.
Robyn Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2483 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2228.
Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1251 and #1398 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #2721 and #569.
Liv Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1475 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #2105.

Moved the opposite way to Jae

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Jae

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jae went from #898 to #5119 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #759 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jae

Jae at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jae across 2 official records

Jae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Jae appears in

Popularity data

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Jae across 2 official records

Jae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Jae and the names beside it

Jae moved ahead of

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