Jia
Feminine · “home”
Jia is given to both — 2,033 girls and 214 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Jia is home and family in Chinese — the character shows a pig under a roof, which is what a household looked like when the writing was invented.
How old is the name Jia?
Jia first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Jia is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,000 people named Jia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jia most popular?
Jia peaked in 2025, reaching #1796 nationally. Today it ranks #1796, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From 家 to Jia
The story of Jia
The character 家 is among the oldest in Chinese writing and appears on oracle bones; its pig-under-a-roof construction is one of the most-cited examples of how Chinese characters were built. Jia is used across China and the diaspora. It appears in the American registers rising and is in current use.
Meaning
home, family; beautiful
From the Chinese jia, 家, 'home' or 'family' — the character is a pig beneath a roof, since a household kept its animals inside. A different jia, 佳, means 'beautiful' or 'excellent'. Both are common in names and the family depends on which character is chosen.
How the name formed
- 家
- Jia
Related forms: 家 · 佳 · Jiya
Pronouncing Jia
JYAH
One syllable in Chinese, with a tone English does not carry. American speakers often say JEE-ah with two.
Nicknames for Jia
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 2025112 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1796reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +1.8%112 in 2025, from 110
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.
Jia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- 家 in Chinese — transliteration
- 佳 in Chinese — transliteration
- Jiya in Hindi — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Jias among us
people named Jia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,351 born in 2025 was named Jia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jia
- #1796
- Jia on the 2025 chart
- #665
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jia went to 112 girls in 2025, but Jiya, Jiah and Jiyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 308, which makes it the 665th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,131 places above the chart.
- Jiya129
- Jia112
- Jiah37
- Jiyah19
- Jya6
- Jyah5
About 1 girl in 5,218 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,351 for Jia 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 Guillermina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Guillermina climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Guillermina's path sketches the road Jia is walking now.
Jia is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jia is headed
Jia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The pig-under-a-roof character is one of the best-known facts about Chinese writing.
- The home meaning is concrete and undisputed.
- Three letters, short and internationally legible.
- The Chinese tone is lost entirely in English.
- The meaning depends on which character a family chose.
- The syllable count differs between Chinese and English readings.
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Feminine · #1796 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Jia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jia?
- Jia is one of 6 recorded spellings. Jiya is the more common one — 129 births in 2025 against 112 for Jia.
- How popular is the name Jia in 2025?
- Jia ranks #1796 among US girl names in 2025, with 112 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jia?
- About 1 in every 14,351 US girls born in 2025 was named Jia — 112 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jia with classmates?
- Jia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jia
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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