Entry № 4921 · Chinese origin

Jia Jia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Beautiful, good, family"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "beautiful, good, family".

Jia in Chinese is written with several characters.

Jia is one of the most common Chinese girl names. In English-speaking countries it is rising as Chinese-heritage families bring it forward.

Beautiful, excellent, family. The kanji decide what.

The name in its native script.

佳 · 嘉 · 家
Transliteration
Jiā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jia stands.

Jia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jias before her.

Real people
Jia Tolentino
American writer for The New Yorker.
born 1988
In fiction

Names connected to Jia.

The number behind Jia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.