Jihad
Jihad is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200096 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1969
- 2,035people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,035 boys have been named Jihad in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 96 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 33%.
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Jihad was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Jihad
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dashonpeak 1997
- Dandrepeak 2000
- Tavonpeak 1996
- Deandrepeak 1994
- Davonpeak 1994
- Marquellpeak 1996
- Diondrepeak 1996
- Garrettpeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.