Jaelle
Jaelle was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,624 among girls’ names; 674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaelle?
#5,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaelle fell from #4,907 in 2015 to #5,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 13.7 per million.
40 babies in 2011, the peak
Jaelle peaked in 2011, when 40 girls were given it, #3,802 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,624 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,323 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,399 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,376 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,297 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,680 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,101 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,703 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,254 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,295 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,907 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,388 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,033 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,328 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,802 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,899 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,138 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,691 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,436 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,531 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,256 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,907 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,733 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,721 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,209 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,788 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,721 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,480 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,258 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 669 Americans named Jaelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 530 people named Jaelle (523 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 514 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,695 babies since 1880, Jaelle is the sixth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 270 babies (8.1%), the second most given that year.
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 Jaelle
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 Jaelle and names like it
- Compare Jaelle and JayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaelle peaked in 2011.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jaelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.