Jair is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Jair isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jair ranks 898. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Jair. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jair.
Jair is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jair cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #482 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2003. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jair, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jair seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jair was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
192 babies were named Jair in 2022 - that's 1 in 840,760 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Jair ranked 1,028 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Jair, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to men and boys named Jair. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Jair living in one state or another. If your name is Jair and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Nevada, which has the most people named Jair relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,314 men and boys their names before you hear Jair as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With four letters, the name Jair is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jair and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jair, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jair
Jair
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
I
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
I
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jair sounds like this:
