Jalah
Jalah was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 602 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,692, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 2000, the peak
Jalah peaked in 2000, when 48 girls were given it, #2,955 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,692 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,609 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,830 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,908 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,487 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,208 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,285 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,449 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,302 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,386 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | #4,976 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,160 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,996 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,019 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,608 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,876 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,756 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,857 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,828 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,351 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,329 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,955 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,833 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,174 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,094 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,917 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,046 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,357 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalah has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jalah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalah, and how old are they?
An estimated 596 Americans named Jalah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 541 people named Jalah (515 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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 81,327 babies since 1880, Jalah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,283 babies recorded by SSA was a Jalah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jalah
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 Jalah and names like it
- Compare Jalah and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalah peaked in 2000.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalah since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jalah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.