Jalea
Jalea was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,438 among girls’ names; 720 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalea?
#12,438 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalea fell from #5,541 in 2015 to #12,438 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 4.4 per million.
38 babies in 2007, the peak
Jalea peaked in 2007, when 38 girls were given it, #4,081 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,438 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,186 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,250 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,301 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,807 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,619 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,842 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,225 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,000 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,587 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,541 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,116 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,722 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,165 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,851 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,234 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,140 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,218 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,081 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,396 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,901 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,535 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,659 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,149 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,444 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,206 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,016 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,853 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,714 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,504 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,076 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,452 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,020 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,710 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,738 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,820 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,367 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,524 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,992 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalea, and how old are they?
An estimated 712 Americans named Jalea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 616 people named Jalea (607 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Jalea?
Jalea is a less common spelling of Jaleah: SSA has recorded 720 Jalea and 3,727 Jaleah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,846 babies since 1880, Jalea is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 912 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Jalea
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 Jalea and names like it
- Compare Jalea and JaleahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jalea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalea alive today were born 1997-2012.
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