boy's name

Jasai

juh-SY

  • Origin American
  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 1,687

the United States

#439

2025 births

Jasai is a boy's name of modern American coinage. It has no inherited meaning: it belongs to a family of names built on the JA opening and a vowel ending, alongside Jamari, Jaxai and Jarai, and it first appears in the records in 2002.

  • Jasai is a name of American origin.
  • Peaked in 2025, when 727 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 4,560 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2002.

Jasai over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

1,226
'00 '10 '20
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Births named Jasai by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 108
2010s 326
2020s (to 2025) 1,226

What Jasai means

Jasai has no meaning of its own. It was assembled from a fashionable opening and ending rather than descending from a word, which is a legitimate way to make a name and worth saying plainly.

Where Jasai comes from

Jasai belongs to a large group of late twentieth and early twenty-first century American coinages built on shared sounds rather than shared roots — the JA opening of Jamal, Jayden and Jamari, with an open vowel ending. Some carry real etymologies borrowed from the names they resemble; Jasai does not, and pages assigning it a Hebrew or African meaning are supplying one after the fact. Our records show it appearing in 2002 and reaching its highest use in 2025, which makes it one of the newest names in the English-speaking top 1,000 and one still rising.

Jasai in use

Jasai first appears in our records in 2002 and reached its highest recorded use in 2025 — one of the newest names in the English-speaking top 1,000.

How popular is Jasai?

In 2025, Jasai was given to 727 babies in the United States, ranking #439 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Jasai is used

United States #439 727 in 2025
England & Wales #1,606 17 in 2025
France #6,610 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Jasai

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Jasai also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Jasai over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

1 nickname for Jasai

Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.

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Jasai in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Jamari Jasiah

Sibling names for Jasai

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Jasai — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Jasai

What does the name Jasai mean?

It has no inherited meaning. Jasai is a modern American coinage built from a fashionable opening and ending.

How new is the name Jasai?

It first appears in the birth records we hold in 2002 and is still rising.

Is Jasai an African name?

There is no evidence for that. Meanings assigned to it are supplied after the fact.

How popular is the name Jasai?

In 2025, Jasai was given to 727 babies in the United States, ranking #439 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Jasai a girl's or a boy's name?

Jasai is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Jasai most popular?

Jasai peaked in 2025, when 727 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

What are the nicknames for Jasai?

Jasai is usually shortened to Jas.

Is Jasai a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Jasai currently ranks #439 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.