Jailah
Jailah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,415 among girls’ names; 1,252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Jailah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jailah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jailah?
#6,415 among girls’ names, 2025
Jailah fell from #3,673 in 2015 to #6,415 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 11.2 per million.
72 babies in 2011, the peak
Jailah peaked in 2011, when 72 girls were given it, #2,519 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,415 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,354 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,502 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,377 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,298 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,806 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,958 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,457 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,325 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,550 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,673 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,985 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,422 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,140 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,519 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,737 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,622 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,005 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,266 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,587 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,667 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,090 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,901 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,906 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,507 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,609 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,739 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,666 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,592 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,789 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,359 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jailah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jailah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jailah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jailah, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,252 Americans ever recorded as Jailah. The median Jailah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 843 people named Jailah (840 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 464 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jailah?
Jailah is a less common spelling of Jayla: SSA has recorded 1,252 Jailah and 46,483 Jayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 81,798 babies since 1880, Jailah is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,196 babies (1.5%), the sixth 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 Jailah
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 Jailah and names like it
- Compare Jailah and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJailah peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jailah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jailah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jailah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.