Jiraiya

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Jiraiya is ranked 918th among boys in 2024 (252 births). Its best rank was 735th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #918down 183 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2520.01% of boys
Peak year: 2023357 births
Best rank: #735in 2023
Since 2007: 2,154people given the name

Babies named Jiraiya, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

2,044 boys have been named Jiraiya in the United States since 2007, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 357 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2021, and the 2020s alone account for 68%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 110 girls have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Jiraiya
2000s	56
2010s	590
2020s	1,398

In 2023, its biggest year

Jiraiya was the 735th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Jiraiya

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.