Jijabai is from the Marathi diminutive jiji (dear mother) and bai (lady). Jijabai Bhosale (1598-1674) was the mother of Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire. She raised him on stories of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, instilling the spirit of Hindu kingship and resistance that would shape the Maratha Empire's rise against the Mughals. Revered as Rashtramata ("Mother of the Nation") in Maharashtra.
Featured in Maratha histories.
Jijabai 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jijabai reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.