Jayah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 32 babies a year in the US.
Jayah by the numbers
Jayah was given to 32 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 44 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Jayah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jayah
Names that are said the same way as Jayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Jayah
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