Jazz
Jazz is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199437 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1983
- 1,507people given the name
The story in the numbers
897 boys have been named Jazz in the United States since 1983, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 37 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 1990s alone account for 31%.
Jazz is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (610), most of them born around 1994.
By decade
In 1994, its biggest year
Jazz was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Jazz
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cjpeak 2020
- Jabrilpeak 1993
- Saxonpeak 2021
- Dimitripeak 1992
- Dayvonpeak 2021
- Kalanpeak 1993
- Mykelpeak 1990
- Mohamadpeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.