# Jayne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jayne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,140 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33 / 29,107 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 341, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 76 | 2,424 |
| 2012 | 58 | 2,951 |
| 2013 | 76 | 2,392 |
| 2014 | 85 | 2,222 |
| 2015 | 81 | 2,303 |
| 2016 | 90 | 2,159 |
| 2017 | 75 | 2,413 |
| 2018 | 80 | 2,284 |
| 2019 | 79 | 2,296 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,563 |
| 2021 | 51 | 3,181 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2,499 |
| 2023 | 64 | 2,718 |
| 2024 | 65 | 2,679 |
| 2025 | 60 | 2,837 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | 4,341 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,054 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,764 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,007 |
| 1986 | 7 | 5,598 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,447 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | 2,084 |
| 2006 | 19 | 1,325 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,895 |
| 2008 | 9 | 2,487 |
| 2009 | 12 | 2,019 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Jayne

- Jayne Mansfield, American actress (1933–1967)
- Jayne Atkinson, British actress
- Jayne Torvill, English ice skater
- Jayne Meadows, Chinese born-American actress and author (1919–2015)
- Jayne Brook, American actress
- Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
- Jayne County, American singer (born 1947)
- Jayne Anne Phillips, American writer (born 1952)
- Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model, writer, producer, and television personality (born 1951)
- Jayne Cortez, American avant-garde jazz poet (1934–2012)
- Jayne Appel, American basketball player (born 1988)
- Mary Jayne Gold, American heiress (1909–1997)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.