Jayna is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jayna is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Jayna. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jayna is #2,168 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jayna.
While Jayna isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2001 the name Jayna reached its highest popularity with #1,168 in our ranking of all female first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their daughter Jayna (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five girls named Jayna to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Jayna has been given to babies in 73 of the 143 years since records began, making girls with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jayna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 52 babies were born with the name Jayna. This puts the name in rank 2,777 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,850,613 newborns was named Jayna that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Jayna has been and remains marvelously unusual!
You may not know anyone named Jayna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to women and girls named Jayna. (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 women and girls named Jayna living in one state or another. If your name is Jayna 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 Hawaii, which has the most people named Jayna relative to the population, you still have to ask 19,187 women and girls their names before you hear Jayna 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 a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Jayna is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jayna 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 Jayna, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Yoyo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jayna
Jayna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
Y
N
A
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
Y
N
A
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. Jayna sounds like this:
