Jaylah
Jaylah was given to 169 girls in 2025, #1,321 among girls’ names; 10,661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,600 Americans named Jaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylah is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage, variant of Jayla.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylah?
#1,321 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylah fell from #483 in 2015 to #1,321 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.37 to 0.11 per 1,000.
1,366 babies in 2013, the peak
Jaylah peaked in 2013, when 1,366 girls were given it, #235 among girls’ names. The 169 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,321 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,203 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,100 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 288 | #944 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 359 | #790 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 373 | #733 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 428 | #676 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 483 | #623 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 488 | #616 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 547 | #569 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 667 | #483 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 914 | #359 | 0.51 |
| 2013 | 1,366 | #235 | 0.78 |
| 2012 | 678 | #460 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 558 | #521 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 446 | #657 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 397 | #731 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 360 | #802 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 283 | #960 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 293 | #906 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,247 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,303 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 141 | #1,412 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 167 | #1,208 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,399 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,743 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,901 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,378 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,711 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,581 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,123 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,032 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylah, and how old are they?
10,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,661 Americans ever recorded as Jaylah. The median Jaylah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 6,591 people named Jaylah (6,568 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,083 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,460 |
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 Jaylah born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylah are California, Texas and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #845 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,077 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,145 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,583 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 7 | #857 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,316 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,346 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,633 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,264 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,305 | 0.6× |
Where Jaylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylah is most over-represented in California: since 1993 it was given 1.8 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 Jaylah 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 78,122 babies since 1880, Jaylah is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 1,043 babies (16%), the third 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 Jaylah
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 Jaylah and names like it
- Compare Jaylah and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaylah peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylah since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jaylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.