Jiraiya

What Jiraiya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jiraiya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #988 vs #3,684 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jiraiya?

US: Rising: up from #2684 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 357 boys got the name (#735 that year). First in the US records in 2007.

How common

• About 1 in 7,394 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 54,387 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.08 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.44 per 1,000 boys), MO (0.36 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jiraiya is #988 in the US and #3684 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.4% of US babies named Jiraiya were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jiraiyah6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jiraiya

Boys

• Colt#285From the word “colt”^*
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Shiloh#281Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #605 in 2015, #281 in 2025
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Isla#28Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #142 in 2015, #28 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
• Vera#205“faith”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jiraiya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.