Jalaya
Jalaya was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,225 among girls’ names; 1,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Jalaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalaya?
#3,225 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalaya fell from #2,177 in 2015 to #3,225 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 30.5 per million.
112 babies in 2010, the peak
Jalaya peaked in 2010, when 112 girls were given it, #1,825 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,225 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,398 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,155 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,417 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,499 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,087 | 54.4 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,181 | 50.6 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,349 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,582 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,578 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,177 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,162 | 49.3 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,314 | 45.6 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,842 | 62.5 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,033 | 54.6 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,825 | 63.0 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,049 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,402 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,549 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,588 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,909 | 30.3 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,784 | 31.6 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,760 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,915 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,972 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,559 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,510 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,852 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,978 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,408 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,921 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,385 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,358 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalaya, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,917 Americans ever recorded as Jalaya. The median Jalaya alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,164 people named Jalaya (1,157 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 912 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 961 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,083 babies since 1880, Jalaya is the fourth most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 533 babies (9.2%), the third 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 Jalaya
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 Jalaya and names like it
- Compare Jalaya and JaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJalaya peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jalaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jalaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.