How rare is the name Jair?

6,898 people in the United States have the first name Jair, about 1 in 43,785. It ranks #3,159 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAIR

#3,159

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,898
About
1 in 43,785
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,898 people named Jair, 83.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 9.7% as Black and 5% as White. 99.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jair peaked in 2003, when 480 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
480
In 2025*
170 ▼65%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,269 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jair by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,547. The largest share of babies named Jair, 53.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#11,54654
1980s#7,562154
1990s#3,345715
2000s#1,5472,940
2010s#2,0842,170
2020s#2,1931,236
Generation X 1965–800.9%
Millennials 1981–967.9%
Generation Z 1997–1253.8%
2013 and later37.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jair is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jair has been most common in California (2.7×), Nevada (2.6×), and Texas (2.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.23×).

5,629 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jair

#3,157 Tylor · 6,901#3,158 Rosalee · 6,900#3,160 Rayan · 6,891#3,161 Twila · 6,890

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jair, most common first.

#1,683 Jairo · 18,460#7,480 Jahir · 2,038#17,988 Jaira · 604#21,719 Jaire · 465#34,922 Jayr · 232#40,999 Jar · 180#49,815 Jairy · 123

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