girls:
87 births since 2016
#5629 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 2007
#2943 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 2007
#5881 (24th percentile)
The name Jiraiya is the #5,881 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,879 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 24.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,943 (35.8% percentile) for all time with 1,792 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,629 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 2016.
Jiraiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2016 for girls).
The name Jiraiya has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jiraiya reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 36.0% percentile (ranked #583) with 195 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 195 births per million (ranked 36.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jiraiya is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #583 (36.0% percentile) with 195 births per million.
For girls, Jiraiya reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #941) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jiraiya ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 74.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jiraiya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jiraiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.6% confident that Jiraiya is pronounced as jih-RAI-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jih-RAI-uh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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