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
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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

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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.