Jalia
Jalia was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,066 among girls’ names; 1,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Jalia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalia?
#8,066 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalia fell from #3,365 in 2015 to #8,066 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 8.1 per million.
119 babies in 2009, the peak
Jalia peaked in 2009, when 119 girls were given it, #1,814 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,066 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,513 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,685 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,848 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,357 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,108 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,481 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,366 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,731 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,551 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,365 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,290 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,542 | 39.9 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,410 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,961 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,486 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,814 | 64.8 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,645 | 37.0 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,901 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,334 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,129 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,510 | 36.5 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,852 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,208 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,018 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,913 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,157 | 23.1 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,068 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,655 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,358 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,816 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,289 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,194 | 6.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,872 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,755 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,160 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,884 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalia, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,614 Americans ever recorded as Jalia. The median Jalia alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,302 people named Jalia (1,293 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 114 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 505 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jalia?
Jalia is a less common spelling of Jaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,614 Jalia and 12,277 Jaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 73,416 babies since 1880, Jalia is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,071 babies (1.2%), the seventh 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 Jalia
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 Jalia and names like it
- Compare Jalia and JaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalia peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalia since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jalia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.