Jaila
Jaila was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,956 among girls’ names; 2,615 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Jaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 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 Jaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaila?
#6,956 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaila fell from #3,043 in 2015 to #6,956 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 10.0 per million.
189 babies in 2006, the peak
Jaila peaked in 2006, when 189 girls were given it, #1,272 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,956 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,686 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,798 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,242 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,764 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,941 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,613 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,312 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,947 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,547 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,043 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,594 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,493 | 41.0 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,527 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,165 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,777 | 65.3 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,841 | 63.1 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,426 | 87.8 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,410 | 87.9 |
| 2006 | 189 | #1,272 | 99.4 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,358 | 86.6 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,595 | 67.0 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,427 | 76.1 |
| 2002 | 153 | #1,284 | 85.1 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,527 | 67.8 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,663 | 58.4 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,964 | 45.1 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,626 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,997 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,982 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,696 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,815 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,007 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,098 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,514 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaila, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,615 Americans ever recorded as Jaila. The median Jaila alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,944 people named Jaila (1,936 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,426 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 616 |
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 Jaila born?
The states with the most babies named Jaila are Texas, Georgia and Michigan, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 180 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 151 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 142 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 137 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 124 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 106 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 72 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 58 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jaila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaila is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1988 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Jaila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jaila?
Jaila is a less common spelling of Jayla: SSA has recorded 2,615 Jaila and 46,483 Jayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,322 babies since 1880, Jaila is the fourth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 821 babies (1.9%), the fifth 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 Jaila
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 Jaila and names like it
- Compare Jaila and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaila peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaila since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jaila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.