Jaya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Jaya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #458 in 2007, and it stood at #1,406 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#458highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#1126
1998	#1165
1999	#842
2000	#670
2001	#671
2002	#574
2003	#538
2004	#463
2005	#494
2006	#490
2007	#458
2008	#500
2009	#565
2010	#549
2011	#575
2012	#587
2013	#652
2014	#907
2015	#649
2016	#881
2017	#1002
2018	#1200
2019	#1017
2020	#1127
2021	#1224
2022	#1282
2023	#1371
2024	#1406

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 girls in England and Wales in every year 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 #1222 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: #458 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1406 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,361 births with the name.

Jaya 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.

Jaya'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 · Girls	#1222 (1996)	#458 (2007)	#1406 (2024)	29 of 29	1,361 (1996–2024)	88 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#2425 (1999)	#2220 (2001)	#3651 (2004)	3 of 6	12 (1999–2004)	5 (2001)

Jaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Jaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	75	4 of 10	19
2000sbusiest	638	10 of 10	64
2010s	521	10 of 10	52
2020s	127	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 64 births a year.

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

Jaya 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: #458 in England and Wales in 2007.

Jaya'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	female	#1406	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1371	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1127	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1017	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1200	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1002	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#881	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#649	63	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#907	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#652	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#587	72	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#575	70	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#549	73	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#565	68	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#500	77	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#458	88	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#490	78	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#494	71	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#463	75	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#538	57	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#574	50	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#671	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#670	36	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#842	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1126	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	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 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #458, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 88 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,406position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
88births registered in its largest year, 200750 to 99 births →

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

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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.

Humaira · #460, 29y
Jaheim · #460, 24y
Izaak · #462, 29y
Ruqayyah · #454, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Leen · #458, 24y
Shayan · #458, 30y
Waqas · #458, 16y
Blaise · #459, 30y

Jaya was ranked #458 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. 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.

Jaya 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 Jaya without appearing here.

Jaya moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1371 and #2689.
Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1127 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1224 and #2499.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1371 and #2063.
Helene Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1222 and #1168 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1126 and #1802.

Moved ahead of Jaya

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1017 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1127 and #460.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #549 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #575 and #261.
Rita Compare
In 2015 they stood at #649 and #735 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #881 and #573.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #575 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #587 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Jaya

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #842 to #1406 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #842 to #1406 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #671 to #1406 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #463 to #1406 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Jaya

Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #670 to #1406 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jaya went from #574 to #1406 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

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: #458 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jaya

Jaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jaya across 2 official records

Jaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

What the record shows

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Jaya at a glance

Jaya across 2 official records

Jaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Jaya

Jaya and the names beside it

Jaya moved ahead of

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