Jalena
Jalena was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,568 among girls’ names; 1,110 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Jalena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalena?
#8,568 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalena fell from #5,543 in 2015 to #8,568 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 7.5 per million.
54 babies in 2007, the peak
Jalena peaked in 2007, when 54 girls were given it, #3,184 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,568 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,187 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,175 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,069 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,263 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,041 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,843 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,872 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,859 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,870 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,543 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,081 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,692 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,244 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,870 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,059 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,588 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,669 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,184 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,882 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,224 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,012 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,972 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,841 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,250 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,374 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,496 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,021 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,429 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,885 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,389 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,545 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,767 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,585 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,758 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,605 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,291 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,716 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,060 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,604 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,192 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,657 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,251 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,124 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,010 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,558 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,202 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,128 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,847 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,900 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,804 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,964 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalena, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,110 Americans ever recorded as Jalena. The median Jalena alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 866 people named Jalena (865 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 575 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 270 |
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 19,771 babies since 1880, Jalena is the fifth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 505 babies (2.4%), the sixth 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 Jalena
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 Jalena and names like it
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- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jalena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.