Jasiah
Feminine
Jasiah is given to both — 648 girls and 9,597 boys since 1880. See Jasiah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
The ending -iah does something no other American suffix can: it makes a coinage look like scripture. Josiah, Isaiah, Nehemiah and Obadiah lend their shape to Jasiah, Amiah and Zaniah, and the borrowed register comes with it.
How old is the name Jasiah?
Jasiah first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Jasiah alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Jasiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jasiah most popular?
Jasiah peaked in 2008, reaching #3529 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,578 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jasiah
A suffix can carry a whole genre with it. In Hebrew, the -iah ending is not decoration: it is a shortened form of the divine name, and every real name that carries it is a sentence about God. English speakers do not know that, but they know the shape, because the prophets carry it and the prophets are read aloud. So when the ending is attached to a syllable with no history, the result sounds ancient and scriptural to an American ear on the strength of the ending alone. That is a genuine effect and worth stating plainly rather than dressing up: Jasiah is not a biblical name, it is a modern name wearing a biblical ending, and the borrowed authority comes from a piece of Hebrew grammar that the borrower is not using.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Jasiah is an American formation built from the Ja- opening and the -iah ending. In genuine Hebrew names that ending is the divine name, so Isaiah means Yah is salvation and Josiah means Yah supports. Jasiah has no such element behind it and no documented meaning; the peak is 2008.
Pronouncing Jasiah
juh-SY-uh
Three syllables, stress on the second. Jasiah and Josiah share a rhythm, which is most of the effect.
Nicknames for Jasiah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 200846 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3529reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%9 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jasiah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jasia in English — spelling variant
- Josiah in English — related form
Jasiahs among us
people named Jasiah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jasiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jasiah
- #10107
- Jasiah on the 2025 chart
- #770
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jasiah went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jaziyah, Jaziah and Jasiyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 11 spellings went to 190, which makes it the 770th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,337 places above the chart.
and 3 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 8,459 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jasiah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jonica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jasiah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jonica climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jonica's path sketches the road Jasiah is walking now.
Jasiah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jasiah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jasiah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Siah works as a short form and is used as a name in its own right.
- Three syllables with a strong central stress.
- The shape is familiar to every American ear.
- It looks biblical and is not, which some will find misleading.
- The name is used more often for boys.
- The 2008 peak dates it to one decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jasiahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jasiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jasiah?
- Jasiah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Jaziyah is the more common one — 76 births in 2025 against 9 for Jasiah.
- How popular is the name Jasiah in 2025?
- Jasiah ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jasiah?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jasiah — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jasiah with classmates?
- Jasiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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