Jayla
Jayla was given to 569 girls in 2025, #530 among girls’ names; 46,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,100 Americans named Jayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayla is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
1990s coinage similar to Jaylen and Kayla.
/ˈd͡ʒeɪlə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayla?
#530 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayla fell from #238 in 2015 to #530 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.78 to 0.35 per 1,000.
3,417 babies in 2006, the peak
Jayla peaked in 2006, when 3,417 babies were given it (3,410 girls, #99 among girls’ names). The 569 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 569 | #530 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 788 | #404 | 0.49 |
| 2023 | 862 | #355 | 0.54 |
| 2022 | 949 | #340 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 1,039 | #308 | 0.63 |
| 2020 | 1,074 | #301 | 0.66 |
| 2019 | 1,286 | #251 | 0.77 |
| 2018 | 1,351 | #241 | 0.79 |
| 2017 | 1,350 | #237 | 0.78 |
| 2016 | 1,391 | #232 | 0.78 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,394 | #238 | 0.78 |
| 2014 | 1,625 | #207 | 0.91 |
| 2013 | 1,839 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,847 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 2,090 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 2,381 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 2,539 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 2,927 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 2,625 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 3,410 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 1,765 | #197 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,561 | #216 | 0.85 |
| 2003 | 1,661 | #200 | 0.91 |
| 2002 | 1,571 | #210 | 0.87 |
| 2001 | 1,422 | #222 | 0.79 |
| 2000 | 1,259 | #261 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 982 | #316 | 0.55 |
| 1998 | 715 | #387 | 0.40 |
| 1997 | 544 | #461 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 421 | #554 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 307 | #693 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 158 | #1,132 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,239 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,621 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,445 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,719 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,305 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,800 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,641 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,355 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,590 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,692 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,048 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,212 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,320 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,754 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,999 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,745 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,602 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayla has been given almost only to girls: 51 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayla, and how old are they?
46,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 46,483 Americans ever recorded as Jayla. The median Jayla alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 34,334 people named Jayla (34,217 women and girls, 117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 29,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,400 |
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).
Where are babies named Jayla born?
The states with the most babies named Jayla are Texas, California and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 68 | #479 | 0.9× |
| California | 57 | #569 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 52 | #352 | 1.4× |
| New York | 43 | #408 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 25 | #460 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 21 | #390 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #568 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #589 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 18 | #575 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #481 | 0.9× |
Where Jayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayla is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1968 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 76,009 babies since 1880, Jayla is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 569 of their 985 babies (58%), again the 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 Jayla
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 Jayla and names like it
- Compare Jayla and JaylahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayla peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayla since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jayla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.