Jaleyah
Jaleyah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,065 among girls’ names; 606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaleyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaleyah?
#8,065 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaleyah fell from #4,771 in 2015 to #8,065 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 8.1 per million.
45 babies in 2011, the peak
Jaleyah peaked in 2011, when 45 girls were given it, #3,515 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,065 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,767 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,510 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,553 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,301 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,377 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,592 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,225 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,098 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,381 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,771 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,699 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,810 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,329 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,515 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,497 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,971 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,624 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,592 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,279 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,423 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,055 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,751 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,500 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,430 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,019 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,855 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,297 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaleyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaleyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaleyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaleyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 601 Americans named Jaleyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 359 people named Jaleyah (356 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
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 23,574 babies since 1880, Jaleyah is the eighth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 606 babies (2.1%), 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 Jaleyah
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 Jaleyah and names like it
- Compare Jaleyah and JaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaleyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jaleyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaleyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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