Girls' name · since 2019
Jalai
Since 2019, U.S. Social Security records show 32 babies named Jalai, peaking in 2021. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #40,189 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,736 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 32
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Jalai is the #16736 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 32 recorded since 2019.
Jalai has 32 recorded births among girls since 2019, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16736 as of the latest data, more common than 3% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.
- #40,189 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,736 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 32 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jalai ranks #40,189 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,736 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 32 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,189 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,736 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 32
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Jalai's 32 recorded births place it above 44.13% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Jalai compares
32 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Jalai's all-time total is 91% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Jalai | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 32 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Jalai's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jalai's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jalai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Jalai by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (27 births, 84% of the file).
2020s was Jalai's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 84% of all-time use.
Jalai births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
27 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 27 births (84% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jalai: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jalai draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.