Jaela
Jaela was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,799 among girls’ names; 2,725 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Jaela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaela?
#5,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaela fell from #2,756 in 2015 to #5,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 13.1 per million.
182 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaela peaked in 2007, when 182 girls were given it, #1,336 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,799 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,070 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,010 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,071 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,362 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,199 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,957 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,852 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,619 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,778 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,756 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,659 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,142 | 50.1 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,852 | 61.9 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,535 | 81.3 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,637 | 73.7 |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,466 | 86.5 |
| 2008 | 177 | #1,366 | 93.6 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,336 | 94.7 |
| 2006 | 175 | #1,332 | 92.0 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,915 | 54.7 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,075 | 47.9 |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,818 | 56.4 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,792 | 55.7 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,398 | 75.5 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,576 | 61.7 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,830 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,774 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,995 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,981 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,815 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,542 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,882 | 11.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,662 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,927 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,108 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,508 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,353 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,559 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,362 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,731 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,479 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,368 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaela, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,725 Americans ever recorded as Jaela. The median Jaela alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,076 people named Jaela (2,075 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,500 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 655 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaela born?
The states with the most babies named Jaela are Texas, California and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 196 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 186 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 159 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 134 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 84 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 78 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 66 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaela with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,322 babies since 1880, Jaela is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 821 babies (2.6%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaela
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaela and names like it
- Compare Jaela and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaela peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaela since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.