girls:
136 births since 1957
#5580 (2nd percentile)
boys:
291 births since 1971
#4295 (6th percentile)
overall:
427 births since 1957
#7312 (5th percentile)
The name Ja is the #7,312 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 427 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,295 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 291 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,580 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 136 births since 1957.
Ja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Ja is available in 39 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ja has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.1% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ja were boys. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for girls (78.1% girls from 1957 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (71.9% boys from 1972 to 2023).
For boys, Ja reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #790) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ja ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 39.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ja reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #888) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ja".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Ja is pronounced as jah, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yah, at 15.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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