Jaye

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Jaye: Recorded since 1996, it reached #620 in 2002, and it was last ranked in 2016.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#620highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#823
1997	#946
1998	#925
1999	#1060
2000	#1389
2001	#1870
2002	#1928
2003	#1843
2004	#2802
2005	#3970
2006	#3116
2007	#3667
2010	#4012

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 17 of the 21 years from 1996 to 2016.

In 2002: #620 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1928 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #823 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
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #4810 among boys in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Boys

Jaye appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 157 births with the name.

Jaye 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.

Jaye'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	#976 (1996)	#750 (1999)	#4810 (2016)	17 of 21	157 (1996–2016)	22 (1999)
England and Wales · Girls	#823 (1996)	#823 (1996)	#4012 (2010)	13 of 15	158 (1996–2010)	27 (1996)

Jaye 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 Jaye in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	68	4 of 10	17
2000sbusiest	71	9 of 10	8
2010s	18	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Jaye appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #620 in Republic of Ireland in 2002.

Jaye'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
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1190	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#953	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1060	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#750	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#823	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#976	14	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2016, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #620, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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 2 registrars, 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.

Aderinsola · #620, 15y
Alexandrea · #620, 14y
Geena · #620, 14y
Izaan · #620, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aderinsola · #620, 15y
Alexandrea · #620, 14y
Anjolaoluwa · #620, 26y
Geena · #620, 14y

Jaye was ranked #620 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2002. 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.

Jaye 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 Jaye without appearing here.

Jaye moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #3227 and #4527.
Kristy Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4012 and #4688.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3970 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Jaye

Rodney Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3987 and #4805 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #4810 and #2175.
Cillian Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #3385 and #1084.
Andrea Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2629 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3987 and #1756.
Conan Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2629 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3987 and #1962.

Moved the opposite way to Jaye

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 while Albie went from #853 to #88.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 while Alfie went from #119 to #14.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 while Alfred went from #218 to #111.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 while Archie went from #192 to #18.

Moved the same way as Jaye

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 and Aaron from #33 to #95.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 and Adam from #16 to #37.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 and Alexander from #14 to #21.
Anders Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Jaye went from #976 to #4810 and Anders from #1591 to #2556.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #620 in Republic of Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Jaye

Jaye at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jaye across 2 official records

Jaye by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Jaye across 2 official records

Jaye by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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