Jala
Jala was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,321 among girls’ names; 2,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Jala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jala?
#11,321 among girls’ names, 2025
Jala fell from #5,910 in 2015 to #11,321 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 5.0 per million.
172 babies in 2001, the peak
Jala peaked in 2001, when 172 girls were given it, #1,188 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,321 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,613 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,669 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,726 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,535 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,608 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,897 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,673 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,858 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,357 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,910 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,825 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,283 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,433 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,104 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,225 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,951 | 32.1 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,902 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,302 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,042 | 51.0 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,985 | 52.0 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,838 | 56.1 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,478 | 72.2 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,386 | 77.4 |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,188 | 95.5 |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,338 | 77.6 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,238 | 85.7 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,511 | 63.4 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,915 | 43.7 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,290 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,939 | 22.7 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,643 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,147 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,120 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,604 | 5.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,047 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,868 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,990 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,345 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,838 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,491 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,655 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,978 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,888 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,945 | 4.6 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,905 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jala, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,058 Americans ever recorded as Jala. The median Jala alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,874 people named Jala (1,837 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 225 |
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 Jala born?
The states with the most babies named Jala are Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 130 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 125 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 96 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 94 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 55 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 43 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 40 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Jala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jala is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1973 it was given 2.0 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 Jala 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 71,800 babies since 1880, Jala is the sixth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 916 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Jala
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 Jala and names like it
- Compare Jala and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJala peaked in 2001.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jala since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jala.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jala alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.