Jia

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Jia: Recorded since 1996, it reached #282 in 2006, and it stood at #1,672 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#282highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Jia's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2002	#2868
2003	#2436
2004	#1043
2005	#736
2006	#704
2007	#742
2008	#608
2009	#763
2010	#758
2011	#721
2012	#887
2013	#1128
2014	#920
2015	#942
2016	#1112
2017	#1144
2018	#1977
2019	#1703
2020	#1507
2021	#2073
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#1672

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2017: #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1144 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 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 recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jia appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 710 births with the name.

Jia across 4 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.

Jia'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	#2683 (1996)	#608 (2008)	#1672 (2024)	26 of 29	710 (1996–2024)	61 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#728 (2008)	#3848 (2020)	21 of 24	305 (1997–2020)	40 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#451 (2002)	#448 (2005)	#646 (2019)	5 of 18	17 (2002–2019)	4 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#620 (2002)	#734 (2017)	6 of 16	22 (2002–2017)	4 (2006)

Jia 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 Jia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	272	8 of 10	34
2010s	344	10 of 10	34
2020s	82	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

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

Jia 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Northern Ireland in 2006.

Jia'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	#1672	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1507	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#942	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1128	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#887	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#721	53	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#758	48	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#763	47	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#831	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#608	61	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#742	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1252	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#704	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#736	40	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1043	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #282, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 61 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

2 registrars publish 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 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 9 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 3 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.

Aimie · #282, 26y
Atlanta · #282, 30y
Azaan · #282, 28y
Ella-Louise · #282, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amy-Louise · #282, 20y
Atlanta · #282, 30y
Azaan · #282, 28y
Buddy · #282, 27y

Jia was ranked #282 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2006. 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.

Jia 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 Jia without appearing here.

Jia moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #5591.
Freddie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2683 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #704 and #3548.
Finn Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2868 and #2868 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #736 and #3382.
Sander Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2587 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1168 and #3385.

Moved ahead of Jia

Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #1786.
Matheo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2693.
Aksel Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1673 and #1902 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #3478 and #1431.
Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #852 and #1398 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1507 and #569.

Moved the opposite way to Jia

Finley Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #3142 to #1672 while Finley went from #1392 to #3318.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #2868 to #1672 while Dianne went from #4137 to #5891.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #1043 to #1672 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Jia went from #2587 to #3848 while Harper went from #2587 to #921.

Moved the same way as Jia

Ezra Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #3142 to #1672 and Ezra from #3848 to #1302.
Blake Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #3900 to #1672 and Blake from #3900 to #432.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #3900 to #1672 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jia went from #3900 to #1672 and Meabh from #3225 to #952.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Northern Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jia

Jia at a glance

What stands out in Jia's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jia across 4 official records

Jia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jia appears in

Popularity data

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What stands out in Jia's record

Jia across 4 official records

Jia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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